Survival impact of immune cells infiltrating peritumoral area of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Survival impact of immune cells infiltrating peritumoral area of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Inflammatory and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment are reported to be associated with tumor progression in several cancers. In total, 225 patients who underwent initial and curative hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from 2004 to 2013 were enrolled in this study. Tumor‐associated neutrophils (TANs), M2 macrophages (TAMs; tumor‐associated macrophages), CD8+ T cells, and regulatory T cells (Tregs) were evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC), and their relationships with patient clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis were evaluated. IHC was performed focusing on TANs first. We could not find a relationship between intratumoral and peritumoral TANs and clinicopathological features except for the fibrous capsule and infiltration of tumors into capsule. Next, TAMs, CD8+ cells and Tregs were evaluated by IHC. At the peritumoral area, TANs and TAMs (r = 0.36, p = 0.001) or Tregs (r = 0.16, p = 0.008) showed a positive correlation, whereas TANs and CD8+ cells showed a negative correlation (r = −0.16, p = 0.02). As for survival outcomes, at the peritumoral area, high TANs (p = 0.0398), low CD8+ cells (p = 0.0275), and high TAMs (p = 0.001) were significantly associated with worse overall survival (OS). In addition, high TANs (p = 0.010), and high TAMs (p = 0.00125) were significantly associated with worse disease‐free survival (DFS). Finally, we established a risk signature model by combining the expression patterns of these cells. The high‐risk signature group had significantly worse OS (p = 0.0277) and DFS (p = 0.0219) compared with those in the low‐risk signature group. Our risk signature based on immune cells at the peritumoral area of the HCC can predict patient prognosis of HCC after curative hepatectomy. In this study, we showed that infiltration of inflammatory and immune cells at peri‐tumoral site of HCC showed a significant association with patients’ prognosis. We also made risk signature evaluated by the infiltration of immune cells at peri‐tumoral site of HCC, and it might to be a new prognostic marker of patients with HCC after curative hepatectomy.
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影响因子:
8.8
作者:
Kitano Y;Okabe H;Yamashita YI;Nakagawa S;Saito Y;Umezaki N;Tsukamoto M;Yamao T;Yamamura K;Arima K;Kaida T;Miyata T;Mima K;Imai K;Hashimoto D;Komohara Y;Chikamoto A;Ishiko T;Baba H
通讯作者:
Baba H
影响因子:
50.3
作者:
Nakagawa S;Wei L;Song WM;Higashi T;Ghoshal S;Kim RS;Bian CB;Yamada S;Sun X;Venkatesh A;Goossens N;Bain G;Lauwers GY;Koh AP;El-Abtah M;Ahmad NB;Hoshida H;Erstad DJ;Gunasekaran G;Lee Y;Yu ML;Chuang WL;Dai CY;Kobayashi M;Kumada H;Beppu T;Baba H;Mahajan M;Nair VD;Lanuti M;Villanueva A;Sangiovanni A;Iavarone M;Colombo M;Llovet JM;Subramanian A;Tager AM;Friedman SL;Baumert TF;Schwarz ME;Chung RT;Tanabe KK;Zhang B;Fuchs BC;Hoshida Y;Precision Liver Cancer Prevention Consortium
通讯作者:
Precision Liver Cancer Prevention Consortium
影响因子:
7.5
作者:
Aishima, Shinichi;Nishihara, Yunosuke;Tsuneyoshi, Masazumi
通讯作者:
Tsuneyoshi, Masazumi
影响因子:
7.2
作者:
He, Min;Peng, Anping;Lao, Xiang-Ming
通讯作者:
Lao, Xiang-Ming
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Shi, Zhi;Yang, Wei-Min;Huang, Ruo-Pan
通讯作者:
Huang, Ruo-Pan