By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy... (phys.org)
However, the problem (as I understand it) with local radiation budgets which you brought up isn't simply that we are treating the local conditions in isolation from the global system, but that we would be looking at the radiation budget without considering convection, evaporation, condensation, etc.. (realclimate.org)
Phylogenetic studies indicate that some of these fungi represent ancient southern hemisphere lineages, whereas as others originate from the dispersal of northern hemisphere species followed by local radiation. (sciencedaily.com)