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Radiation Induced Abscopal Effect in a Patient With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma on Pembrolizumab

Abscopal effect is a rare phenomenon in which treatment benefit from radiotherapy (RT) is seen outside the target field due to activation of the immune system inducing an anti-tumor effect. This phenomenon has been reported in cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Here we rep...

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Autores principales: Rittberg, Rebekah, Chan, Elisa, Yip, Stephen, Alex, Deepu, Ho, Cheryl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308690
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22159