カワムラ　ヒデマサ   KAWAMURA Hidemasa   河村　英将    所属   埼玉医科大学  医学部 総合医療センター　放射線科(画像診断・核医学科、放射線腫瘍科)    職種   教授
論文種別	学術雑誌(原著)
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読なし
表題	A Promising Treatment Strategy for Lung Cancer: A Combination of Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy.
掲載誌名	正式名：Cancers
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	14(1)
著者・共著者	Yuhei Miyasaka,Hiro Sato,Naoko Okano,Nobuteru Kubo,Hidemasa Kawamura,Tatsuya Ohno
発行年月	2021/12/31
概要	Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide despite advances in treatment. In the past few decades, radiotherapy has achieved outstanding technical advances and is being widely used as a definitive, prophylactic, or palliative treatment of patients with lung cancer. The anti-tumor effects of radiotherapy are considered to result in DNA damage in cancer cells. Moreover, recent evidence has demonstrated another advantage of radiotherapy: the induction of anti-tumor immune responses, which play an essential role in cancer control. In contrast, radiotherapy induces an immunosuppressive response. These conflicting reactions after radiotherapy suggest that maximizing immune response to radiotherapy by combining immunotherapy has potential to achieve more effective anti-tumor response than using each alone. Immune checkpoint molecules, such as cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4, programmed cell death-1/programmed death-ligand 1, and their inhibitors, have attracted significant attention for overcoming the immunosuppressive conditions in patients with cancer. Therefore, the combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors and radiotherapy is promising. Emerging preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated the rationale for these combination strategies. In this review, we outlined evidence suggesting that combination of radiotherapy, including particle therapy using protons and carbon ions, with immunotherapy in lung cancer treatment could be a promising treatment strategy.
DOI	10.3390/cancers14010203
PMID	35008367