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Dynamic immune profiling predicts response to radiation plus anti-PD-1 therapy in oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma

Immune cell patterns in blood and tumors can predict which kidney cancer patients will respond to radiation plus immunotherapy.

The RAPPORT trial prospectively collected tumor and blood samples from 30 oligometastatic clear-cell RCC patients receiving SABR plus pembrolizumab, identifying immune trafficking signatures separating responders from non-responders. Responders showed pre-existing high-density cytotoxic T-cell infiltrates near tumor cells and post-radiation CD8+ proliferative bursts maintaining shared tumor-enriched TCR clones, while non-responders had TGF-beta/angiogenic immunosuppressive enrichment.

What the study was

Study design
prospective_translational_phase1_2
Category
novel_therapeutics
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Nat Commun

Why it surfaced

First comprehensive translational biomarker study from a prospective Phase I/II trial defining T-cell trafficking as response determinant for SABR+anti-PD1 in ccRCC; Nature Communications quality; immediately actionable for patient stratification.

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