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Silvia Formenti, MD, on Testing Radiation and Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Different Tumor Settings

AACR Virtual Annual Meeting 2020 II

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Silvia Formenti, MD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses her continuing work, and the promising results emerging, in combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy to boost abscopal response rates. This combination therapy extends the use of radiotherapy to promote antitumor T-cell responses for both local and metastatic disease (Session ED37).



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