Therapeutic vaccines for follicular lymphoma have had limited success. A novel in situ immunotherapeutic strategy combining 3 different treatment modalities induced regression of disseminated follicular lymphoma, which correlated with systemic antitumor T-cell immunity. These results should renew interest in the development of local combined radio- and immunotherapies to achieve abscopal effects.
Keywords: abscopal; cancer vaccine; dendritic cells; follicular lymphoma; immunotherapy; radiotherapy; rituximab.