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ArticleAging2021

Intravascular emboli relates to immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and predicts prognosis in stage III colorectal cancer.

Xiangping Song, Di Xie, Fengbo Tan, Yuan Zhou, Yuqiang Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Qian Pei, Haiping Pei

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Article in Aging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Xiangping SongDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Di XieDepartment of Neurology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Fengbo TanDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Yuan ZhouDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Yuqiang LiDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Zhongyi ZhouDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Qian PeiDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Haiping PeiDepartment of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
Central South University · CNXiangya Hospital Central South University · CN

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Abstract

backgroundStage III colorectal cancer (CRC) patients experience varying degrees of prognosis even if receiving standard therapeutic regimes. Intravascular emboli (IVE), a type of vascular invasion, impacts the clinical outcome in CRC. In this study, we confirmed the role of IVE in predicting the prognosis of stage III CRC patients and characterized the tumor microenvironment (TME) of CRC with IVE.

methodsData from 220 consecutive patients (cohort 1) with stage III CRC undergoing radical surgery was collected retrospectively between January 2009 to December 2014. According to the presence of IVE, which was confirmed by two independent pathologists, patients were classified into two groups. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to evaluate the relation of IVE presence to patients' prognosis. The association between IVE and clinicopathological factors was also analyzed. Furthermore, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and gene set enrichment analyses (GSEA) were performed to describe features of the TME based on microarray data consisting of 6 patients. Tumor tissues from a separate cohort of 73 patients with stage III CRC (cohort 2) collected between June 2014 and December 2015 were used to analyze tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) by immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining.

resultsIVE was observed in 126 (57.3%) patients and could serve as an unfavorable independent prognostic predictor (P < 0.001) as well as lymph node metastasis (P < 0.05) and tumor location (P < 0.05). Additionally, patients with IVE had a higher neutrophil percentage (P = 0.002) and lower lymphocyte percentage (P = 0.002) relative to those without IVE. CRC with IVE had a significantly different profile of DEGs compared to CRC without IVE, and GSEA showed chronic inflammatory and immunosuppressive TME may promote IVE development. In cohort 2, tumors with IVE had fewer CD3

conclusionIVE, which was related closely to a chronic inflammatory and immunosuppressive TME, forecasted a worse prognosis of stage III CRC patients and may be taken into consideration when a therapeutic strategy is decided upon.

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Tumor MicroenvironmentAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBlood VesselsColorectal NeoplasmsFemaleHumansImmunosuppression TherapyLymphocytesMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm StagingNeoplasms, Vascular Tissuecolorectal cancerintravascular emboliprognosistumor infiltrating lymphocytetumor microenvironment

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