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  • Immunotherapy Assessment: A...
    Granata, Vincenza; Fusco, Roberta; Setola, Sergio Venanzio; Simonetti, Igino; Picone, Carmine; Simeone, Ester; Festino, Lucia; Vanella, Vito; Vitale, Maria Grazia; Montanino, Agnese; Morabito, Alessandro; Izzo, Francesco; Ascierto, Paolo Antonio; Petrillo, Antonella

    Diagnostics (Basel), 01/2023, Volume: 13, Issue: 2
    Journal Article

    Immunotherapy denotes an exemplar change in an oncological setting. Despite the effective application of these treatments across a broad range of tumors, only a minority of patients have beneficial effects. The efficacy of immunotherapy is affected by several factors, including human immunity, which is strongly correlated to genetic features, such as intra-tumor heterogeneity. Classic imaging assessment, based on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is useful for conventional treatments, has a limited role in immunotherapy. The reason is due to different patterns of response and/or progression during this kind of treatment which differs from those seen during other treatments, such as the possibility to assess the wide spectrum of immunotherapy-correlated toxic effects (ir-AEs) as soon as possible. In addition, considering the unusual response patterns, the limits of conventional response criteria and the necessity of using related immune-response criteria are clear. Radiomics analysis is a recent field of great interest in a radiological setting and recently it has grown the idea that we could identify patients who will be fit for this treatment or who will develop ir-AEs.