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Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer
BACKGROUND: The significance of total and specific subpopulations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in cancer is now well-documented. In the present study, we investigated the relevance of CD3+, CD8 +, CD45RO +, and FOXP3 + TILs to the prognosis and survival of patients with bladder cancer an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36038861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-022-01085-6 |
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author | Ariafar, Ali Sanati, Alireza Ahmadvand, Simin Shekarkhar, Golsa Safaei, Akbar Shayan, Zahra Faghih, Zahra |
author_facet | Ariafar, Ali Sanati, Alireza Ahmadvand, Simin Shekarkhar, Golsa Safaei, Akbar Shayan, Zahra Faghih, Zahra |
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description | BACKGROUND: The significance of total and specific subpopulations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in cancer is now well-documented. In the present study, we investigated the relevance of CD3+, CD8 +, CD45RO +, and FOXP3 + TILs to the prognosis and survival of patients with bladder cancer and the disease's clinical-pathological parameters. METHODS: Infiltration of each subset was immunohistochemically evaluated in both stromal and intratumoral regions of tumor tissues from 85 patients with urothelial cell carcinoma of the bladder, with known survival. RESULTS: Our results indicated that intratumoral CD45RO+ lymphocytes were significantly higher in high-grade tumors than in low-grade ones (P = 0.028). The frequencies of intratumoral CD3+ (P = 0.002), CD8 + (P = 0.008), intratumoral (P = 0.002), and stromal (P = 0.017) CD45RO+ lymphocytes were also higher in patients with muscular invasion than those without invasion. The frequencies of intratumoral CD3+ (P = 0.043), CD8+ (P = 0.003), CD45RO+ (P = 0.023), and total CD45RO+ (P = 0.015), showed variation in patients with different T-stage, as well; mostly increased in T2 versus Ta and T1. Comparing patients in different stages revealed an increase in the frequencies of total CD3+ (P = 0.011), intratumoral CD3+ (P = 0.006), total CD8+ (P = 0.012), intratumoral CD8+ (P = 0.009) and stromal CD8+ (P = 0.034), as well as total and stromal CD45RO+ lymphocytes (P = 0.01 and P = 0.034, respectively) in stage II comparing to stage I, while the frequencies of stromal CD3+ (P = 0.077) and CD8+ (P = 0.053) cells tended to be decreased in stage III compared to stage II. CONCLUSIONS: We collectively observed that the frequency of immune cells, especially CD45RO+, CD3+, and CD8+ lymphocytes, were significantly higher in early-progressed tumors. This observation could be explained by continuous and prolonged stimulation of immune cells with tumor antigens during tumor progression or an increase in the recruiting factors, especially in the early stages, to eliminate tumor cells. However, with tumor progression to the late stages, the inhibitory microenvironment provided by tumor cells suppresses or changes the functionality of the effector and memory immune cells to help tumor growth. However, more functional studies with larger sample sizes are needed to reveal the real status of the immune system in patients with bladder cancer. |
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spelling | pubmed-94220952022-08-30 Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer Ariafar, Ali Sanati, Alireza Ahmadvand, Simin Shekarkhar, Golsa Safaei, Akbar Shayan, Zahra Faghih, Zahra BMC Urol Research BACKGROUND: The significance of total and specific subpopulations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in cancer is now well-documented. In the present study, we investigated the relevance of CD3+, CD8 +, CD45RO +, and FOXP3 + TILs to the prognosis and survival of patients with bladder cancer and the disease's clinical-pathological parameters. METHODS: Infiltration of each subset was immunohistochemically evaluated in both stromal and intratumoral regions of tumor tissues from 85 patients with urothelial cell carcinoma of the bladder, with known survival. RESULTS: Our results indicated that intratumoral CD45RO+ lymphocytes were significantly higher in high-grade tumors than in low-grade ones (P = 0.028). The frequencies of intratumoral CD3+ (P = 0.002), CD8 + (P = 0.008), intratumoral (P = 0.002), and stromal (P = 0.017) CD45RO+ lymphocytes were also higher in patients with muscular invasion than those without invasion. The frequencies of intratumoral CD3+ (P = 0.043), CD8+ (P = 0.003), CD45RO+ (P = 0.023), and total CD45RO+ (P = 0.015), showed variation in patients with different T-stage, as well; mostly increased in T2 versus Ta and T1. Comparing patients in different stages revealed an increase in the frequencies of total CD3+ (P = 0.011), intratumoral CD3+ (P = 0.006), total CD8+ (P = 0.012), intratumoral CD8+ (P = 0.009) and stromal CD8+ (P = 0.034), as well as total and stromal CD45RO+ lymphocytes (P = 0.01 and P = 0.034, respectively) in stage II comparing to stage I, while the frequencies of stromal CD3+ (P = 0.077) and CD8+ (P = 0.053) cells tended to be decreased in stage III compared to stage II. CONCLUSIONS: We collectively observed that the frequency of immune cells, especially CD45RO+, CD3+, and CD8+ lymphocytes, were significantly higher in early-progressed tumors. This observation could be explained by continuous and prolonged stimulation of immune cells with tumor antigens during tumor progression or an increase in the recruiting factors, especially in the early stages, to eliminate tumor cells. However, with tumor progression to the late stages, the inhibitory microenvironment provided by tumor cells suppresses or changes the functionality of the effector and memory immune cells to help tumor growth. However, more functional studies with larger sample sizes are needed to reveal the real status of the immune system in patients with bladder cancer. BioMed Central 2022-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9422095/ /pubmed/36038861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-022-01085-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Ariafar, Ali Sanati, Alireza Ahmadvand, Simin Shekarkhar, Golsa Safaei, Akbar Shayan, Zahra Faghih, Zahra Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
title | Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
title_full | Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
title_fullStr | Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
title_short | Prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
title_sort | prognostic significance of immunoscore related markers in bladder cancer |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422095/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36038861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-022-01085-6 |
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