The immune system has the power to modulate the expression of radiation-induced normal
and tumor tissue damage. On the one hand, it can contribute to cancer cure, and on the
other hand, it can influence acute and late radiation side effects, which in many ways
resemble acute and chronic inflammatory disease states. The way radiation-induced
inflammation feeds into adaptive antigen-specific immune responses adds another
dimension to the tumor-host cross talk during radiation therapy and to possible radiation …