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ArticleCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2025

Tertiary lymphoid structures in high-grade serous tubo-ovarian carcinoma: anatomical site matters.

Sofia Westbom-Fremer, Lena Tran, Anna Ebbesson, Laura Martin de la Fuente, Jenny-Maria Jönsson, Päivi Kannisto, Srinivas Veerla, Ingrid Hedenfalk

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Article in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Sofia Westbom-FremerDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. sofia.westbom_fremer@med.lu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-371X
Lena TranDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Anna EbbessonDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Laura Martin de la FuenteDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-8282
Jenny-Maria JönssonDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6208-7813
Päivi KannistoDivision of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5517-1494
Srinivas VeerlaDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7328-6239
Ingrid HedenfalkDivision of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, and Lund University Cancer Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6840-3397

Funding

Governmental funding of clinical research within the National Health Services (ALF) 40615 (2022)The B Kamprad Foundation FBKS 2019-28The Cancer and Allergy Foundation 10672 (2022)The Swedish Cancer Society 21-1684
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) in the tumor microenvironment are prognostically beneficial in many solid cancer types. Reports on TLS in high-grade serous tubo-ovarian carcinoma (HGSC) are few, and the prognostic impact is unclear. We investigated mature TLS (mTLS), immature TLS (iTLS) and lymphoid aggregates (LA) in primary adnexal tumors (PTs) and synchronous omental/peritoneal metastases (pMets) of HGSC. Whole H&E slides were scrutinized for mTLS and LA in a population-based cohort of 130 cases with stage III-IV HGSC. The immune cell tumor infiltration was evaluated with single chromogenic immunohistochemistry (IHC) on a tissue microarray (TMA) from the same cases. Selected whole slides (PT n = 11, pMet n = 10) of the cases most abundant in mTLS and LA were further investigated with multiplex IHC and immunofluorescence using digital image analysis (QuPath), to confirm TLS status and map the T and B lymphocyte subtypes. The results showed that mTLS were more common in pMets than in PTs but did not have an independent prognostic impact on overall or progression-free survival. The presence of mTLS correlated with intratumoral infiltration of CD8

Indexed as

Cystadenocarcinoma, SerousLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingOvarian NeoplasmsTertiary Lymphoid StructuresTumor MicroenvironmentAdultAgedFallopian Tube NeoplasmsFemaleHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm GradingPrognosisHigh-grade serous carcinomaMetastasisPrognosisTertiary lymphoid structure

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PMID39751944
PMCPMC11699021

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