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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2023

Construction and validation of a tumor mutational burden and immune-related prognostic model for predicting the prognosis of patients with lung squamous cell carcinoma.

Yuting Zhou, Min Xu, Kai Zhao, Baodong Liu

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2023. 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. Adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: insights from 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 · 2026
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuting ZhouDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Central Hospital of Zibo, Affiliated with Shandong University, Zibo, China.
Min XuDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Central Hospital of Zibo, Affiliated with Shandong University, Zibo, China.
Kai ZhaoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Central Hospital of Zibo, Affiliated with Shandong University, Zibo, China.
Baodong LiuDepartment of Interventional Oncology, Central Hospital of Zibo, Affiliated with Shandong University, Zibo, China.
Shandong University · CNCentral Hospital of Zibo · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is a highly malignant tumor with an extremely poor prognosis. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) improve survival in some patients with LUSC. Tumor mutation burden (TMB) is a useful biomarker to predict the efficacy of ICIs. However, predictive and prognostic factors related to TMB in LUSC remain elusive. This study aimed to find effective biomarkers based on TMB and immune response and establish a prognostic model of LUSC. Methods: We downloaded Mutation Annotation Format (MAF) files from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and identified immune-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between high- and low-TMB groups. The prognostic model was established using cox regression. The primary outcome was overall survival (OS). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and calibration curves were used to verify the accuracy of the model. GSE37745 acted as external validation set. The expression and prognosis of hub genes as well as their correlation with immune cells and somatic copy number variation (sCNA) were analyzed. Results: The TMB of patients with LUSC was correlated with prognosis and stage. High TMB group had higher survival rate (P<0.001). Five TMB-related hub immune genes ( Conclusions: Our results show that high TMB is associated with poor prognosis in patients with LUSC. The prognostic model related to TMB and immunity can effectively predict the prognosis of LUSC, and risk score is one of the independent prognostic factors of LUSC. However, this study still has some limitations, which need to be further verified in large-scale and prospective studies.

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immunityLung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC)prognostic modeltumor mutation burden (TMB)

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