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ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2019

The role of immune infiltrates as prognostic biomarkers in patients with breast cancer.

Constantin N Baxevanis, Michael Sofopoulos, Sotirios P Fortis, Sonia A Perez

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Role of SLC31A1 in prognosis and immune infiltration in breast cancer: a novel insight.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2024
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  12. Identification ofBreast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Constantin N BaxevanisCancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras Ave., 115 22, Athens, Greece. baxevanis@ciic.gr.
Michael SofopoulosPathology Department, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Sotirios P FortisCancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras Ave., 115 22, Athens, Greece.
Sonia A PerezCancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras Ave., 115 22, Athens, Greece.
St Savas Hospital · GR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The presence of immune infiltrates in the tumor microenvironment has been documented in many types of cancer. Moreover, the preexistent or endogenous immunity which consists of interactions between intratumoral lymphocytes and tumor cells is mostly relevant for the successful application of various anticancer therapies, including standard chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibition-based immunotherapy and targeted therapies. The immunoscore defines densities of intratumoral immune infiltrates which determine poor or favorable prognosis depending on their quantity and quality in the tumor compartments. Results from large clinical studies have demonstrated an association between high densities of cytotoxic and memory TILs in the tumor compartments with improved prognosis. Importantly, we have demonstrated that differential combined densities of immune infiltrates jointly analyzed in the tumor center (TC) and the invasive margin (IM) have a significant prognostic value in breast cancer patients with poor clinicopathological parameters.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMacrophagesPrognosisTumor MicroenvironmentBiomarkers, TumorBiomarkersBreast cancerCD163+ cellsCD8+ T cellsTILsTIMO XIV

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PMID30905043
PMCPMC11028310
OpenAlexW2942233012

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