A major goal of cancer therapy is developing chemotherapy strategies that are accurate and efficient without being highly toxic. Recently, Bradley et al. and Liu et al. developed radioresponsive prodrugs, enabling site-directed, radiotherapy-triggered, and precise chemotherapy, which displays synergistic efficacy and avoids the serious side effects of conventional treatment approaches.

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