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Summary: Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is a unique mode of cell death, which can release immunogenic damage‐associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and tumor‐associated antigens to trigger long‐term protective antitumor immune responses. Thus, amplifying "eat me signal" during tumor ICD cascade is critical for cancer immunotherapy. Some therapies (radiotherapy, photodynamic therapy (PDT), photothermal therapy (PTT), etc.) and inducers (chemotherapeutic agents, etc.) have enabled to initiate and/or facilitate ICD and activate antitumor immune responses. Recently, nanostructure‐based drug delivery systems have been synthesized for inducing ICD through combining treatment of chemotherapeutic agents, photosensitizers for PDT, photothermal transformation agents for PTT, radiosensitizers for radiotherapy, etc., which can release loaded agents at an appropriate dosage in the designated place at the appropriate time, contributing to higher efficiency and lower toxicity. Also, immunotherapeutic agents in combination with nanostructure‐based drug delivery systems can produce synergetic antitumor effects, thus potentiating immunotherapy. Overall, our review outlines the emerging ICD inducers, and nanostructure drug delivery systems loading diverse agents to evoke ICD through chemoradiotherapy, PDT, and PTT or combining immunotherapeutic agents. Moreover, we discuss the prospects and challenges of harnessing ICD induction‐based immunotherapy, and highlight the significance of multidisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration to promote the optimal translation of this treatment strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Treatment guidelines recommend neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy, with or without immune checkpoint inhibitors, for resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We report the interim results for the phase 3 RATIONALE-315 study, which aimed to investigate perioperative tislelizumab for the treatment of resectable NSCLC., Methods: RATIONALE-315 is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial conducted at 50 sites (hospitals or academic research centres) in China. Patients (aged ≥18 years) with untreated stage II-IIIA squamous or non-squamous NSCLC were randomly assigned (1:1) to neoadjuvant tislelizumab 200 mg or placebo intravenously every 3 weeks, plus platinum-based doublet chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant tislelizumab 400 mg or placebo every 6 weeks. Dual primary endpoints were major pathological response rate and event-free survival, analysed by intention to treat. Safety was also assessed in all patients who received at least one dose of study treatment. RATIONALE-315 is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04379635, and is active but not recruiting., Findings: Between June 8, 2020, and Aug 31, 2022, 453 patients were assigned to tislelizumab (n=226) or placebo (n=227). The median age of patients was 62·0 years (IQR 56·0-67·0). 410 (91%) of 453 patients were male and 43 (9%) were female. As of Aug 21, 2023 (data cutoff for the interim analysis of event-free survival), median duration of follow-up was 22·0 months (IQR 15·5-28·0). Tislelizumab significantly improved event-free survival versus placebo (stratified hazard ratio 0·56 [95% CI 0·40-0·79]; one-sided p=0·0003). The major pathological response rate was significantly higher in the tislelizumab group (56% [95% CI 50-63]) than in the placebo group (15% [11-20]; difference 41% [33-49]; one-sided p<0·0001). Grade 3 or worse adverse events and serious treatment-related adverse events occurred in 163 (72%) of 226 patients and 35 (15%) of 226 patients, respectively, in the tislelizumab group, and in 150 (66%) and 18 (8%) patients, respectively, in the placebo group. The most common grade 3 or worse treatment-related adverse event was decreased neutrophil count (138 [61%] of 226 in the tislelizumab group vs 134 [59%] of 226 in the placebo group). 31 (14%) of 226 patients in the tislelizumab group and 45 (20%) of 227 patients in the placebo group died during the study., Interpretation: Perioperative tislelizumab plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy showed a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in efficacy and a manageable safety profile compared with neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with resectable stage II-IIIA NSCLC., Funding: BeiGene., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests BYa and SW are employees at BeiGene. RW and WZ are employees at and have stocks or other ownership in BeiGene. All other authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.)