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The purpose of this study is to find out if having radiation therapy and continuing immunotherapy can improve the benefit of immunotherapy. There have been reports of patients who were treated with radiation therapy that not only caused the treated tumors to shrink or stop growing, but also resulted in tumors that had not been treated in other parts of the body to shrink or stop growing. This effect is thought to be brought about by cells in the body's immune system that become active as a result of the effects of radiation therapy. If radiation therapy can stimulate the immune system, it may be possible for immunotherapy to be helpful again in treating a cancer that the immunotherapy drug helped treat before. This study will also check if receiving immunotherapy at the end of radiation therapy has any effect on the side effects of radiation therapy or immunotherapy.
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Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) will be delivered in up to 10 treatment fractions over 1 to 2 weeks. Patients will continue to receive the same FDA-approved programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1) or programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor that they had been receiving at the time of disease progression through 52 weeks following completion of SRT.
Correlative blood samples will be collected at baseline, prior to the second SRT fraction, after the last SRT fraction (on the same day), and at 8, 24, and 52 weeks after the last SRT fraction. These samples will be used to determine the mechanistic immunologic effects of therapy.
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5 participants in 3 patient groups
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