Radiation 'Priming' tested to supercharge cancer immunotherapy

NCT ID NCT04454528

Summary

This study is testing if adding a single, targeted dose of radiation to an immunotherapy drug (pembrolizumab) before surgery is safe and can help shrink breast tumors. It involves about 27 patients with early-stage, operable breast cancer. Researchers want to see if this combination makes the immune system attack the cancer more effectively and leads to better outcomes.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

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