title: Radiation boosts immunotherapy.
abstract: Instead of thwarting immunotherapy, radiotherapy might enhance its cancer-fighting effects, experiments in mice show, by increasing the population of CD8+ T cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D056747:Immunomodulation / Q000528:radiation effects*; D007167:Immunotherapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D011827:Radiation