MONONUCLEAR-CELL INFILTRATION IN OVARIAN-CANCER .1. INFLAMMATORY - CELL INFILTRATES FROM TUMOR AND ASCITES MATERIAL
MONONUCLEAR-CELL INFILTRATION IN OVARIAN-CANCER .1. INFLAMMATORY - CELL INFILTRATES FROM TUMOR AND ASCITES MATERIAL
复制标题
DOI:
10.1038/bjc.1982.114
复制
发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
WALTON, L
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
HASKILL, S;BECKER, S;WALTON, L
Malignant effusions and tumor tissue obtained at surgery provided material for a study of the prognostic value of the various inflammatory cells in the prognosis of human ovarian cancer. Ascitic fluids predominantly contained inflammatory cells; tumor cells, both singly and in clusters, were a minor component. Tumor cells were usually in excess in dispersed solid material. Some patients had significant proportions of lymphocytes and macrophages in their solid tumor, and these patients invariably responded to therapy. Sedimentation-velocity separation at unit gravity provided 2 populations of inflammatory cells. One consisted of mononuclear cells similar in size to those in the patients blood: the other consisted of 1 or more large macrophage populations, distinct in morphology and enzymatic markers from both blood monocytes and each other. T lymphocytes were enriched in ascites fractions (78%) and in the tumor-derived mononuclear fraction (71%) compared to patient blood (60%). The T-cell subset characterized by ANAE [acid naphthyl-acetate esterase] reactivity was markedly depleted in the tumor-infiltrating fraction (17%) relative to either the ascites (62%) or patient blood (51%). Esterase-positive monocyte-like cells were more frequent in the tumor-infiltrating fraction (17%) than in ascites (7%) or blood (12%). B lymphocytes were infrequent in solid tumors and difficult to assess in ascites. Histiocyte-like macrophages were present in the higher-velocity tumor-cell containing fractions of both solid and ascitic material. The variation in infiltrating cells between patients and between tumor and ascites of the same individual was marked.