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ArticleNPJ breast cancer2022

Immunoarchitectural patterns as potential prognostic factors for invasive ductal breast cancer.

Xue Du, Zhe Zhou, Yun Shao, Kun Qian, Yongfang Wu, Jun Zhang, Miao Cui, Jingjing Wang, Shengqi Wang, Yanhong Tai

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Article in NPJ breast cancer, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xue Du *Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, PR China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9424-0520
Zhe Zhou *Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, PR China.
Yun Shao *Department of Pathology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China.
Kun QianBeijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, PR China.
Yongfang WuDepartment of Pathology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China.
Jun ZhangDepartment of Pathology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China.
Miao CuiDepartment of Pathology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China.
Jingjing WangDepartment of Pathology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China.
Shengqi WangBeijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, PR China. sqwang@bmi.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5659
Yanhong TaiDepartment of Pathology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China. taiyanhong29@163.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8818-6716
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CNBeijing Radiation Center · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 81972485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in invasive breast cancers are assessed solely on the basis of their number, whereas their spatial distribution is rarely investigated. Therefore, we evaluated TILs in 579 patients with invasive breast cancer of no special type (IBC-NST) with a focus on their spatial distributions in tumor center (TC) and invasive margin (IM). We also assessed a new factor, namely para-tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (PILs) in the para-tumor lobular area (Para). Five immunoarchitectural patterns (IPs) were observed, which were significantly associated with clinicopathological features, especially molecular subtypes, histological grades, clinical stages, and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression. High-TIL density (IP1/2) correlated with favorable disease-free survival (DFS) in TNBC patients (p = 0.04), but opposite results were observed for luminal B subtype patients (both the lowest TIL and PIL densities (IP5) correlated with good DFS, p = 0.013). Luminal B patients with high TILs in the IM and low TILs in the TC (IP3) exhibited the worst DFS, whereas those with low TILs (similar to IP5) and high PILs (IP4) exhibited poor DFS. We also identified TIL subpopulations with significantly different IPs. Our findings suggest that IP can be a potential prognostic factor for tumor immunity in IBC.

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