Abstract
Abstract Radiation therapy (RT) has shown marginal efficacy in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). Two of the past three randomized controlled trials investigating the efficacy of RT for patients with locally advanced unresectable PDA have shown a statistically significant worse survival by 40% or more for patients receiving RT. We postulated that RT reprograms inflammatory cells within the tumor microenvironment to an immune suppressive phenotype limiting the efficacy of RT in invasive PDA and accelerating disease progression in surrounding pre-invasive foci. We found that RT markedly accelerates the progression of pre-invasive PDA in a dose-dependent manner and reduces animal survival by more than 6 months. In both invasive and pre-invasive PDA, RT reprograms immunogenic macrophages towards an immune-suppressive M2 phenotype resulting in CD8 T cell scarcity and Th2 and Treg differentiation of CD4 T cells. Moreover, adoptive transfer of T cells harvested from RT-treated tumors accelerates tumor growth in recipient hosts. We show that M-CSF blockade concurrent with RT prevents immune-suppressive macrophage and T cell reprogramming and markedly enhances the efficacy of RT in PDA. These data suggest that targeting macrophage reprogramming can unleash the utility of RT for PDA. Citation Format: Lena Tomkötter, Gregor Werba, Susanna Nguy, Sara Alothman, Dalia Alqunaibit, Shaun Tiwari, Nancy Ngoc Giao Ly, Donnele Daley, Atsuo Ochi, Rocky Barilla, Alejandro Torres-Hernandez, Ilenia Pellicciotta, Kevin Du, George Miller. Radiation therapy induces tumor-promoting immune suppression in the microenvironment of pancreatic carcinoma. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR Inaugural International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference: Translating Science into Survival; September 16-19, 2015; New York, NY. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Immunol Res 2016;4(1 Suppl):Abstract nr A145.
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