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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2023

Tumor biology and immune infiltration define primary liver cancer subsets linked to overall survival after immunotherapy.

Anuradha Budhu, Erica C Pehrsson, Aiwu He, Lipika Goyal, Robin Kate Kelley, Hien Dang, Changqing Xie, Cecilia Monge, Mayank Tandon, Lichun Ma and 21 more

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

31 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Anuradha BudhuLiver Cancer Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Erica C PehrssonLiver Cancer Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; CCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Aiwu HeLombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Lipika GoyalDepartment of Medical Oncology, Mass General Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Robin Kate KelleyDepartment of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Hien DangDepartment of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Changqing XieGastrointestinal Malignancies Section, Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Cecilia MongeGastrointestinal Malignancies Section, Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Mayank TandonCCR Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Lichun MaLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Mahler RevsineLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Laura KuhlmanLombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Karen ZhangDepartment of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Islam BaievDepartment of Medical Oncology, Mass General Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Ryan LammDepartment of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Keyur PatelDepartment of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
David E KleinerLaboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 21701, USA.
Stephen M HewittLaboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 21701, USA.
Bao TranSequencing Facility, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Jyoti ShettySequencing Facility, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Xiaolin WuGenomics Technology Laboratory, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Yongmei ZhaoAdvanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Tsai-Wei ShenAdvanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Sulbha ChoudhariAdvanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Yuliya KrigaAdvanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Kris YlayaLaboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 21701, USA.
Andrew C WarnerMolecular Histopathology Laboratory, Laboratory Animal Sciences Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Elijah F EdmondsonMolecular Histopathology Laboratory, Laboratory Animal Sciences Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Marshonna ForguesLaboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Tim F GretenLiver Cancer Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Gastrointestinal Malignancies Section, Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: tim.greten@nih.gov.
Xin Wei WangLiver Cancer Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: xw3u@nih.gov.
National Institutes of Health · USFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USThomas Jefferson University · USGeorgetown University · USHarvard University · USUCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center · US

Funding

WORK ORDER 126643 B539 EXPAND IC SUITE75N91019D00024 · NIAID · LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, INC. · PI BRISCOE, LYNN · 2019 to 2025
$3932.6M
Tissue Culture Shared ResourceP30CA051008 · NCI · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI Louis M Weiner · 1990 to 2026
$71.5M
Strategies for improving early detection, diagnosis and treatment of liver cancerZIABC010313 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WANG, XIN WEI · 2009 to 2025
$18.1M
Experimental Pathology Laboratory (EPL)ZICBC011638 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HEWITT, STEPHEN · 2015 to 2025
$16.6M
Postmortem PathologyZICBC010685 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI KLEINER, DAVID ERWIN · 2009 to 2025
$14.3M
Liver Cancer ProgramZIABC011870 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WANG, XIN WEI · 2019 to 2025
$10.1M
Tumor evolution in response to treatmentZIABC012083 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI MA, LICHUN · 2022 to 2025
$1.5M
The identification of human hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis genesZ01BC010877 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WANG, XIN · 2008 to 2008
$327k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010877NCI NIH HHS 75N91019D00024NCI NIH HHS P30 CA051008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary liver cancer is a rising cause of cancer deaths in the US. Although immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors induces a potent response in a subset of patients, response rates vary among individuals. Predicting which patients will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors is of great interest in the field. In a retrospective arm of the National Cancer Institute Cancers of the Liver: Accelerating Research of Immunotherapy by a Transdisciplinary Network (NCI-CLARITY) study, we use archived formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples to profile the transcriptome and genomic alterations among 86 hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma patients prior to and following immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment. Using supervised and unsupervised approaches, we identify stable molecular subtypes linked to overall survival and distinguished by two axes of aggressive tumor biology and microenvironmental features. Moreover, molecular responses to immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment differ between subtypes. Thus, patients with heterogeneous liver cancer may be stratified by molecular status indicative of treatment response to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsGenomicsHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunotherapyRetrospective StudiesImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorscholangiocarcinomahepatocellular carcinomaimmunotherapyliver cancer

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PMID37224815
PMCPMC10313915
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