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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021

Tumor Inflammation, Obesity, and Proliferative Status as Biomarkers in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma.

Sarbajit Mukherjee, R J Seager, Yong Hee Lee, Jeffrey M Conroy, Pawel Kalinski, Sarabjot Pabla

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sarbajit MukherjeeDepartment of Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, New York, NY 14206, USA.
R J SeagerBioinformatics, OmniSeq, Inc., 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2866-5288
Yong Hee LeeBioinformatics, OmniSeq, Inc., 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
Jeffrey M ConroyRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Medicine, Elm and Carlton Streets, New York, NY 14206, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1764-9706
Pawel KalinskiDepartment of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, New York, NY 14206, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7025-3562
Sarabjot PablaBioinformatics, OmniSeq, Inc., 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · US

Funding

Targeting the Chemokine System to Sensitize Tumors to ImmunotherapyP01CA234212 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI KALINSKI, PAWEL · 2020 to 2024
$10.1M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA234212NCI NIH HHS P01CA234212 (Project 1) grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent epidemiological studies have shown that obesity, typically measured by increased body mass index (BMI), is associated with an increased risk of gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEAC), but the contributing molecular and immune mechanisms remain unknown. Since obesity is known to promote chronic inflammation, we hypothesized that obesity leads to inflammation-related immune dysfunction, which can be reversed by immune-modulating therapy. To test our hypothesis, we examined the clinical and molecular data from advanced GEAC patients. To this end, 46 GEAC tumors were evaluated for biomarkers representing tumor inflammation, cell proliferation, and PD-L1 expression. A CoxPH regression model with potential co-variates, followed by pairwise post hoc analysis, revealed that inflammation in the GEAC tumor microenvironment is associated with improved overall survival, regardless of BMI. We also observed a significant association between cell proliferation and progression-free survival in overweight individuals who received immune-modulating therapy. In conclusion, our data confirm the role of the immune system in the natural course of GEAC and its responses to immunotherapies, but do not support the role of BMI as an independent clinically relevant biomarker in this group of patients.

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biomarkerBMIbody mass indexesophageal cancergastric cancerimmunotherapyinflammationobesityproliferationsurvival

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PMID34945796
PMCPMC8708257
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