Could low-dose radiation boost cancer treatment before surgery?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 18 years or above. 2. Patients with pathologically confirmed HNSCC (except for nasopharyngeal carcinoma) and meet the following condition: ①Were newly diagnosed and without distant metastasis; were deemed surgically resectable, evaluated by a head and neck surgeon; ②Were willing to undergo surgery; ③Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1; ④Adequate organ and bone marrow function: Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1.5 × 10\^9/L, hemoglobin ≥ 80 g/L, platelets ≥ 80 × 10\^9/L; ALT, AST and ALP \< 2.5× upper limit of normal (ULN), total bilirubin ≤ 2×ULN; albumin≥ 2.8 g/dL；Creatinine clearance ≥ 60 ml/min；INR≤ 1.5, APTT≤ 1.5×ULN. 3. Written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. History of other malignancies (except for the history of malignant tumors that have been cured and have not recurred within 5 years, such as skin basal cell carcinoma, skin squamous cell carcinoma, superficial bladder cancer, in situ cervical cancer, and gastrointestinal mucosal cancer, etc.） 2. Have an active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment or a documented history of clinically severe autoimmune disease. 3. Any history of allergic disease, or a severe hypersensitivity reaction to drugs, or allergy to the study drug components. 4. Any of prior therapy with: ①anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1/2, anti-CTLA-4 antibody, anti-EGFR antibody or EGFR-TKIs； ②antitumor vaccine; ③any active vaccine against an infectious disease within 4 weeks before the first dose or planned during the study period; ④major surgery or serious trauma within 4 weeks before the first dose; ⑤toxicity from prior antitumor therapy has not recovered to ≤ CTCAE Version 5.0 Grade 1 or the level specified by the inclusion/exclusion criteria. 5. With serious medical diseases, such as grade II and above cardiac dysfunction (NYHA criteria), ischemic heart disease, supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmia, poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, poorly controlled hypertension, echocardiographic ejection fraction \< 50%, etc. 6. With interstitial pneumonitis, non-infectious pneumonitis, active pulmonary tuberculosis, or history of pulmonary tuberculosis infection that were not controlled by treatment. 7. With hyperthyroidism, or organic thyroid disease. 8. With active infection, or unexplained fever during the screening period or 48 hours before the first dose. 9. With active hepatitis B or C, or known history of positive HIV test, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 10. History of a clear neurological or psychiatric disorder. 11. History of drug abuse or alcohol abuse. 12. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have a reproductive plan from the screening period to 3 months after the end of the study, or have sex without contraceptive measures, or are unwilling to take appropriate contraceptive measures. 13. Received any investigational drug within 4 weeks prior to the first dose, or concurrently enrolled in another clinical trial. 14. Any other factors that are not suitable for inclusion in this study judged by investigators.