The Cureus Journal of Medical Science is proud to introduce the Radiation Therapy as a Modality to Create Abscopal Effects: Current and Future Practices publishing competition. The goal of the program is to collect and showcase clinical instances of the abscopal effect featuring high potential methods of delivery and combination therapy and by doing so potentially discover unanticipated new knowledge of this complex phenomenon. Specifically, we are seeking new publications focusing on the following areas:

• Review articles on radiation therapy with abscopal effects
• Concepts explaining the mode of action for abscopal effects and which cases would benefit most
• Case reports or case series demonstrating combination therapy of RT with immunotherapy to increase the abscopal effect
• Different methods of RT delivery and their impact on creating the abscopal effect

Eligible submissions shall include related original articles, review articles, technical reports, case reports and case series.

Our goal is to share the results with the Cureus global community of radiation and clinical oncologists, neurosurgeons (where applicable), medical physicists, biologists and immunologists as well as patients who might benefit. To encourage dissemination and cross-disciplinary awareness, all published materials will be Open Access and indexed with PubMed Central.

The winners of this competition will be determined by general acclaim of the medical community using Cureus Scholarly Impact Quotient™ (SIQ™) crowdsourcing technology.

Program administration has been enabled through the financial support of Varian Medical Systems. Article selection, editorial review, peer review, publication, and competition winner determination are strictly independent of the sponsor.