ArticleCancers2021
Combined Assessment of Immune Checkpoint Regulator VISTA on Tumor-Associated Immune Cells and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Identifies Advanced Germ Cell Tumors with Higher Risk of Unfavorable Outcomes.
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- Diagnostic and prognostic role of NLR in testicular cancer.Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy · 2024Pooled it
- The expression of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) involves in the clinicopathologic characteristics and prognostic implications of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT): a systematic review and meta-analysis.Translational cancer research · 2024Article
- The Immune Landscape and Immunotherapeutic Strategies in Platinum-Refractory Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.Cancers · 2024Review
- Biomarkers for Salvage Therapy in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Immune checkpoint receptor VISTA on immune cells is associated with expression of T-cell exhaustion marker TOX and worse prognosis in renal cell carcinoma with venous tumor thrombus.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Prognostic Significance of Systemic Inflammation Markers in Testicular and Penile Cancer: A Narrative Review of Current Literature.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Immune checkpoint inhibitors and Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy: Potential treatment options against Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Tumor Budding Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma and It Positively Correlates with PD-L1 Expression on Tumor Cells.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- IGSF11 and VISTA: a pair of promising immune checkpoints in tumor immunotherapy.Biomarker research · 2022Review
- Detection of Specific Immune Cell Subpopulation Changes Associated with Systemic Immune Inflammation-Index Level in Germ Cell Tumors.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Comprehensive Assessment of Selected Immune Cell Subpopulations Changes in Chemotherapy-Naïve Germ Cell Tumor Patients.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- VISTA inhibitors in cancer immunotherapy: a short perspective on recent progresses.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2021Review
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Abstract
In the current study, we aimed to investigate whether expression of immune checkpoint proteins (V-domain Ig suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA) and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)) and markers of systemic inflammation could predict progression/relapse and death in the cohort of 180 patients with testicular germ-cell tumors (GCTs). Expression of PD-L1 and VISTA was assessed by immunohistochemistry utilizing tissue microarrays. To estimate systemic inflammation neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) were calculated. We found high PD-L1 and VISTA expression on tumor-associated immune cells (TAICs) in 89 (49.44%) and 63 (37.22%) of GCTs, respectively, whereas tumor cells besides trophoblastic elements were almost uniformly negative. High PD-L1 was associated with seminomatous histology and lower stage. Relapses in stage I patients occurred predominantly in cases with low numbers of PD-L1 and VISTA-expressing TAICs. In stage II/III disease, the combination of low VISTA-expressing TAICs and high PLR was identified as predictor of shorter event-free survival (HR 4.10; 1.48-11.36,
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