ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021
Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Colorectal Cancer: The Fundamental Indication and Application on Immunotherapy.
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- Comparative efficacy and safety of nivolumab-based combination therapies (with ipilimumab or binimetinib) in patients with microsatellite-stable and microsatellite-instability-high metastatic colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Pooled it
- Tumor characteristics impact prognosis in deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite instability-high localized colorectal cancer-a systematic review and meta-analysis.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2026Pooled it
- Microsatellite instability combined with PD-L1 expression in prognosis of gastric cancer: an integrated analysis based on individual patient data.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Inflammatory markers from routine blood tests predict survival in multiple myeloma: a Systematic Review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Causal impacts of 731 immunocyte phenotypes on colorectal cancer-evidence from a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Pooled it
- Inflammation and Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of the Prognostic Significance of the Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) and the Systemic Inflammation Response Index (SIRI).International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Racial disparities in colorectal cancer clinicopathological and molecular tumor characteristics: a systematic review.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2024Pooled it
- The histological and molecular characteristics of early-onset colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Prognostic significance of HLA-G in patients with colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis and bioinformatics analysis.BMC cancer · 2023Pooled it
- Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes as an endpoint in cancer vaccine trials.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Pooled it
- Prognostic Value of Lymphocyte-to-Monocyte Ratio (LMR) in Patients With Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of men's healthPooled it
- Tumor-Immune-On-Chip to Evaluate Pathophysiological Feature of T Lymphocytes Expanded from Patient Tumors and Lymph Node Tissues.Cancer medicine · 2026Trial
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- A clinicopathological and hematological biomarker-based nomogram for overall survival in early-onset colorectal cancer: development, external validation, and translational implications.Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- Preoperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a survival predictor in nonmetastatic colon cancer in a Latin America-based population.Annals of coloproctology · 2026Article
- Immune Cytolytic Activity Correlates with Tumor Microenvironmental Aberrations in Colorectal Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram incorporating preoperative NLR, CEA and CA19-9 for overall survival in colorectal cancer.Oncology letters · 2026Article
- T-helper 1 and 2 cell densities, and mesenteric cytokine levels, are prognostic markers in colorectal cancer.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Article
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- Foxp3+/CD4+ Cell Ratio in Primary Colorectal Cancer Predicts Opposite Prognoses Following Resection of Synchronous or Metachronous Liver Metastases.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
The clinical success of immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer patients, bringing renewed attention to tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) of various cancer types. Immune checkpoint blockade is effective in patients with mismatched repair defects and high microsatellite instability (dMMR-MSI-H) in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), leading the FDA to accelerate the approval of two programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) blocking antibodies, pembrolizumab and nivolumab, for treatment of dMMR-MSI-H cancers. In contrast, patients with proficient mismatch repair and low levels of microsatellite stability or microsatellite instability (pMMR-MSI-L/MSS) typically have low tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and have shown unsatisfied responses to the immune checkpoint inhibitor. Different TILs environments reflect different responses to immunotherapy, highlighting the complexity of the underlying tumor-immune interaction. Profiling of TILs fundamental Indication would shed light on the mechanisms of cancer-immune evasion, thus providing opportunities for the development of novel therapeutic strategies. In this review, we summarize phenotypic diversities of TILs and their connections with prognosis in CRC and provide insights into the subsets-specific nature of TILs with different MSI status. We also discuss current clinical immunotherapy approaches based on TILs as well as promising directions for future expansion, and highlight existing clinical data supporting its use.
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