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A new Nature paper just delivered a shock to a long-lived oncology myth.
🔗 https://t.co/gVGM9QvQqw
For years we’ve been told that radiotherapy—and its cousins like SBRT, TARE, Y-90—might trigger the “abscopal effect,” a systemic immune response that helps control distant disease.
This study shows the opposite: radiation induces Amphiregulin (AREG) and can stimulate distant metastasis through myeloid-cell reprogramming.
So what does this mean for HPB oncology?
👉 The “abscopal effect” is not a clinical strategy. It’s a story.
👉 Radiation-driven systemic benefit is, at best, unreliable—and at worst, misleading.
👉 Surgery remains the only method of local control with reproducible impact on survival.
My first nerve-sparing prostatectomy - performed while still in medical school. I spent countless hours in the anatomy lab mastering every structure. Before you can become exceptional in surgery, you must first truly understand the anatomy. Precision starts with knowledge