放射外科
医学
脑转移
毒性
肿瘤科
随机对照试验
内科学
免疫疗法
临床试验
放射治疗
转移
癌症
作者
Angela Botticella,Frédéric Dhermain
标识
DOI:10.1097/wco.0000000000001217
摘要
The incidence of brain metastasis is high and still increasing. Among local therapies, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is an effective treatment option, optimally sparing normal brain, even for multiple brain metastases. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) become the new standard of care in an increasing number of cancers, and the combination SRS and ICI is often proposed to patients, but few data have been published on the efficacy and the toxicity of this association.Explaining this lack of consensus: retrospective studies with different primary cancers, various treatment lines and unknown levels of steroid exposure. Concerning the toxicity, the independent association of radionecrosis with brain-PTV volume was confirmed, and a decreased dose of SRS is now tested in a randomized study. Finally, a 'concurrent' delivery of SRS and ICI (within a 4 weeks' interval) seems the optimal schedule; fractionated radiosurgery for large brain metastasis should be favored. Radio-sensitizing nanoparticles and devices aiming to increase the permeability of the blood brain barrier should be considered in future combinations.The efficacy/toxicity balance of SRS-ICI combination should be regularly re-evaluated, anticipating continued progress in ICI and SRS delivery, with more long-survivors potentially exposed to long-term toxicities. Patients should be included in clinical trials and clearly informed to participate more closely in the final choice.
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