Kosaku Mimura, Takashi Ogata, Phuong H D Nguyen, Souvick Roy, Hassen Kared, Yate-Ching Yuan, Michael Fehlings, Yuya Yoshimoto, Daisaku Yoshida, Shotaro Nakajima, Hisashi Sato, Nozomu Machida, Takanobu Yamada, Yohei Watanabe, Tomoaki Tamaki, Hirohito Fujikawa, Yasuhiro Inokuchi, Suguru Hayase, Hiroyuki Hanayama, Zenichiro Saze, Hiroyuki Katoh, Fumiaki Takahashi, Takashi Oshima, Ajay Goel, Alessandra Nardin, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Koji Kono
BACKGROUND: Tumor-associated antigen (TAA)-specific CD8(+) T cells are essential for nivolumab therapy, and irradiation has been reported to have the potential to generate and activate TAA-specific CD8(+) T cells. However, mechanistic insights of T-cell response during combinatorial immunotherapy using radiotherapy and nivolumab are still largely unknown. METHODS: Twenty patients included in this study were registered in the CIRCUIT trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03453164)...
January 30, 2024: Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer