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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

Prognostic Significance of Lymphocyte Infiltrate Localization in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Toni Čeprnja, Ivana Mrklić, Melita Perić Balja, Zlatko Marušić, Valerija Blažićević, Giulio Cesare Spagnoli, Antonio Juretić, Vesna Čapkun, Ana Tečić Vuger, Eduard Vrdoljak and 1 more

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Toni ČeprnjaDepartment of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Cytology, University Hospital Center Split, School of Medicine, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Ivana MrklićDepartment of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Cytology, University Hospital Center Split, School of Medicine, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Melita Perić BaljaDepartment of Pathology, University Hospital Center "Sestre Milosrdnice", 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-4871-9677
Zlatko MarušićDepartment of Pathology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Valerija BlažićevićDepartment of Pathology, University Hospital Osijek, 31000 Osijek, Croatia.
Giulio Cesare SpagnoliCNR Institute "Translational Pharmacology", 00133 Rome, Italy.
Antonio JuretićDepartment of Oncology, Clinical Hospital "Sveti Duh", School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Vesna ČapkunDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Centre Split, School of Medicine, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Ana Tečić VugerDepartment of Oncology, University Hospital Center "Sestre Milosrdnice", 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Eduard VrdoljakDepartment of Oncology, University Hospital Center Split, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Snježana TomićDepartment of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Cytology, University Hospital Center Split, School of Medicine, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia.
University of Split · HRSisters of Charity Hospital · HRIstituto di Farmacologia Traslazionale · ITUniversity Hospital Centre Zagreb · HRUniversity of Osijek · HRUniversity of Zagreb · HR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High infiltration by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) is associated with favorable prognosis in different tumor types, but the clinical significance of their spatial localization within the tumor microenvironment is debated. To address this issue, we evaluated the accumulation of intratumoral TILs (itTILs) and stromal TILs (sTILs) in samples from 97 patients with early triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in the center (sTIL central) and periphery (sTIL peripheral) of tumor tissues. Moreover, the presence of primary and secondary lymphoid aggregates (LAs) and the expression levels of the cancer testis antigen (CTA), NY-ESO-1, and PD-L1 were explored. High infiltration by itTILs was observed in 12/97 samples (12.3%), unrelated to age, Ki67 expression, tumor size, histologic type and grade, and LA presence. NY-ESO-1 was expressed in tumor cells in 37 samples (38%), with a trend suggesting a correlation with itTIL infiltration (p = 0.0531). PD-L1 expression was detected in immune cells in 47 samples (49%) and was correlated with histologic grade, sTILs, and LA formation. The presence of primary LAs was significantly correlated with better disease-free survival (DFS) (p = 0.027). Moreover, no tumor progression was observed during >40 months of clinical follow up in the 12 patients with high itTILs or in the 14 patients with secondary LAs. Thus, careful evaluation of lymphoid infiltrate intratumoral localization might provide important prognostic information.

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cancer testis antigensimmunotherapylymphoid aggregatesNY-ESO-1PD-L1triple-negative breast cancertumor-infiltrating lymphocytes

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PMID35743725
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