Radiation therapy is often thought of as a treatment for localized cancer that hasn’t spread. But when paired with other therapies, it can be an effective option for patients with metastatic disease.

“It has long been recognized that there are opportunities to use drugs to make radiation therapy even more effective,” says Benjamin Schrank, M.D., Ph.D., a resident physician in Radiation Oncology and a member of the Wen Jiang Laboratory...