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Brown JS, Sundar R, Lopez J. Combining DNA damaging therapeutics with immunotherapy: more haste, less speed. Br J Cancer 2018; 118:312-324. [PMID: 29123260 PMCID: PMC5808021 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2017.376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Revised: 09/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The idea that chemotherapy can be used in combination with immunotherapy may seem somewhat counterproductive, as it can theoretically eliminate the immune cells needed for antitumour immunity. However, much preclinical work has now demonstrated that in addition to direct cytotoxic effects on cancer cells, a proportion of DNA damaging agents may actually promote immunogenic cell death, alter the inflammatory milieu of the tumour microenvironment and/or stimulate neoantigen production, thereby activating an antitumour immune response. Some notable combinations have now moved forward into the clinic, showing promise in phase I-III trials, whereas others have proven toxic, and challenging to deliver. In this review, we discuss the emerging data of how DNA damaging agents can enhance the immunogenic properties of malignant cells, focussing especially on immunogenic cell death, and the expansion of neoantigen repertoires. We discuss how best to strategically combine DNA damaging therapeutics with immunotherapy, and the challenges of successfully delivering these combination regimens to patients. With an overwhelming number of chemotherapy/immunotherapy combination trials in process, clear hypothesis-driven trials are needed to refine the choice of combinations, and determine the timing and sequencing of agents in order to stimulate antitumour immunological memory and improve maintained durable response rates, with minimal toxicity.
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- Jessica S Brown
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, London SM2 5PT, UK
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- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, London SM2 5PT, UK
- Department of Haematology-Oncology, National University Health System, Singapore
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- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, London SM2 5PT, UK
- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK
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Badalamenti G, Fanale D, Incorvaia L, Barraco N, Listì A, Maragliano R, Vincenzi B, Calò V, Iovanna JL, Bazan V, Russo A. Role of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in patients with solid tumors: Can a drop dig a stone? Cell Immunol 2018; 343:103753. [PMID: 29395859 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2018.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2017] [Revised: 12/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In recent years, multiple strategies for eliciting anti-tumor immunity have been developed in different clinical studies. Currently, immunotherapy was clinically validated as effective treatment option for many tumors such as melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Some surface receptors of immune cells, called immune checkpoint receptors, may inhibit activity of proinflammatory lymphocytes, following binding with specific ligands. Cancer cells exploit these mechanisms to inactivate tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) to escape from immunosurveillance. Among the different tumor-infiltrating immune cell populations, including leucocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells and mast cells, TILs are considered a selected population of T-cells with a higher specific immunological reactivity against tumor cells than the non-infiltrating lymphocytes. In this review we will discuss the promising role of TILs as biomarkers reflecting the immune response to the tumor, describing their potential ability to predict the prognosis and clinical outcome of immunotherapy in some solid tumors.
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- Giuseppe Badalamenti
- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Department, University Campus Bio-Medico, 00128 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), Unité 1068, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Marseille F-13009, France
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy.
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The Relationship Between Mismatch Repair Deficiency and PD-L1 Expression in Breast Carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 2018; 42:183-191. [DOI: 10.1097/pas.0000000000000949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Jenkins RW, Thummalapalli R, Carter J, Cañadas I, Barbie DA. Molecular and Genomic Determinants of Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Cancer. Annu Rev Med 2018; 69:333-347. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-060116-022926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Russell W. Jenkins
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
- Division of Medical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Genta S, Ghisoni E, Giannone G, Mittica G, Valabrega G. Reprogramming T-cells for adoptive immunotherapy of ovarian cancer. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2018; 18:359-367. [PMID: 29307234 DOI: 10.1080/14712598.2018.1425679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most common cause of death among gynecological malignancies. Despite surgical and pharmacological efforts to improve patients' outcome, persistent and recurrent EOC remains an un-eradicable disease. Chimeric associated antigens (CAR) T cells are T lymphocytes expressing an engineered T cell receptor that activate the immune response after an MHC unrestricted recognition of specific antigens, including tumor associated antigens (TAAs). CART cells have been shown to be effective in the treatment of hematologic tumors even if frequently associated with potentially severe toxicity and high production costs. AREAS COVERED In this review, we will focus on preclinical and clinical studies evaluating CART activity in EOC in order to identify possible difficulties and advantages of their use in this particular setting. EXPERT OPINION The pattern of diffusion within the peritoneal cavity, the tumor microenvironment and the high rate of TAAs make EOC a particularly interesting model for CART cells use. Data from preclinical studies indicate a potential activity of CARTs in EOC, but robust clinical data are still awaited. Further studies are needed to determine the best methods of administration and the most effective CAR type to treat EOC patients.
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- Sofia Genta
- a Candiolo Cancer Institute-FPO- IRCCS , Turin , Italy .,b Department of Oncology , University of Torino , Turin , Italy
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- a Candiolo Cancer Institute-FPO- IRCCS , Turin , Italy .,b Department of Oncology , University of Torino , Turin , Italy
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- a Candiolo Cancer Institute-FPO- IRCCS , Turin , Italy .,b Department of Oncology , University of Torino , Turin , Italy
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- a Candiolo Cancer Institute-FPO- IRCCS , Turin , Italy .,b Department of Oncology , University of Torino , Turin , Italy
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- a Candiolo Cancer Institute-FPO- IRCCS , Turin , Italy .,b Department of Oncology , University of Torino , Turin , Italy
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Wirth TC, Kühnel F. Neoantigen Targeting-Dawn of a New Era in Cancer Immunotherapy? Front Immunol 2017; 8:1848. [PMID: 29312332 PMCID: PMC5742119 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Accepted: 12/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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During their development and progression tumors acquire numerous mutations that, when translated into proteins give rise to neoantigens that can be recognized by T cells. Initially, neoantigens were not recognized as preferred targets for cancer immunotherapy due to their enormous diversity and the therefore limited options to develop “one fits all” pharmacologic solutions. In recent years, the experience obtained in clinical trials demonstrating a predictive role of neoantigens in checkpoint inhibition has changed our view on the clinical potential of neoantigens in cancer immunotherapy. Technological advances such as sequencing of whole cancer genomes, the development of reliable algorithms for epitope prediction, and an increasing number of immunotherapeutic options now facilitate the development of personalized tumor therapies directly targeting a patient’s neoantigenic burden. Preclinical studies in mice that support the excellent therapeutic potential of neoantigen-directed immunotherapies have provided blueprints on how this methodology can be translated into clinical applications in humans. Consistently, very recent clinical studies on personalized vaccinations targeting in silico predicted neoepitopes shed a first light on the therapeutic potential of personalized, neoantigen-directed immunotherapies. In our review, we discuss the various subtypes of tumor antigens with a focus on neoantigens and their potential in cancer immunotherapy. We will describe the current methods and techniques of detection as well as the structural requirements for neoantigens that are needed for their recognition by T cells and for tumor destruction. To assess the clinical potential of neoantigens, we will discuss their occurrence and functional relevance in spontaneous and hereditary cancers and their prognostic and predictive value. We will present in detail the existing immunotherapeutic options that exploit the neoantigen burden of tumors encompassing both preclinical efforts that provided convincing technological proof-of-concept and the current clinical studies confirming the potential of neoantigen-directed immunotherapies.
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- Thomas C Wirth
- Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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Chae YK, Anker JF, Bais P, Namburi S, Giles FJ, Chuang JH. Mutations in DNA repair genes are associated with increased neo-antigen load and activated T cell infiltration in lung adenocarcinoma. Oncotarget 2017; 9:7949-7960. [PMID: 29487705 PMCID: PMC5814272 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.23742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Mutations in DNA repair genes lead to increased genomic instability and mutation frequency. These mutations represent potential biomarkers for cancer immunotherapy efficacy, as high tumor mutational burden has been associated with increased neo-antigens and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. While mismatch repair mutations have successfully predicted response to anti-PD-1 therapy in colorectal and other cancers, they have not yet been tested for lung cancer, and few have investigated genes from other DNA repair pathways. We utilized TCGA samples to comprehensively immunophenotype lung tumors and analyze the links between DNA repair mutations, neo-antigen and total mutational burden, and tumor immune infiltration. Overall, 73% of lung tumors contained infiltration by at least one T cell subset, with high mutational burden tumors containing significantly increased infiltration by activated CD4 and CD8 T cells. Further, mutations in mismatch repair genes, homologous recombination genes, or POLE accurately predicted increased tumor mutational burden, neo-antigen load, and T cell infiltration. Finally, neo-antigen load correlated with expression of M1-polarized macrophage genes, PD-1, PD-L1, IFNγ, GZMB, and FASLG, among other immune-related genes. Overall, after defining the immune infiltrate in lung tumors, we demonstrate the potential value of utilizing gene mutations from multiple DNA repair pathways as biomarkers for lung cancer immunotherapy.
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- Young Kwang Chae
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA.,Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, 06030, CT, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, 06030, CT, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA.,Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, 06030, CT, USA.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, 06032, CT, USA
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Goode EL, Block MS, Kalli KR, Vierkant RA, Chen W, Fogarty ZC, Gentry-Maharaj A, Tołoczko A, Hein A, Bouligny AL, Jensen A, Osorio A, Hartkopf A, Ryan A, Chudecka-Głaz A, Magliocco AM, Hartmann A, Jung AY, Gao B, Hernandez BY, Fridley BL, McCauley BM, Kennedy CJ, Wang C, Karpinskyj C, de Sousa CB, Tiezzi DG, Wachter DL, Herpel E, Taran FA, Modugno F, Nelson G, Lubiński J, Menkiszak J, Alsop J, Lester J, García-Donas J, Nation J, Hung J, Palacios J, Rothstein JH, Kelley JL, de Andrade JM, Robles-Díaz L, Intermaggio MP, Widschwendter M, Beckmann MW, Ruebner M, Jimenez-Linan M, Singh N, Oszurek O, Harnett PR, Rambau PF, Sinn P, Wagner P, Ghatage P, Sharma R, Edwards RP, Ness RB, Orsulic S, Brucker SY, Johnatty SE, Longacre TA, Ursula E, McGuire V, Sieh W, Natanzon Y, Li Z, Whittemore AS, Anna D, Staebler A, Karlan BY, Gilks B, Bowtell DD, Høgdall E, Candido dos Reis FJ, Steed H, Campbell IG, Gronwald J, Benítez J, Koziak JM, Chang-Claude J, Moysich KB, Kelemen LE, Cook LS, Goodman MT, García MJ, Fasching PA, Kommoss S, Deen S, Kjaer SK, Menon U, Brenton JD, Pharoah PDP, Chenevix-Trench G, Huntsman DG, Winham SJ, Köbel M, Ramus SJ. Dose-Response Association of CD8+ Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Survival Time in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer. JAMA Oncol 2017; 3:e173290. [PMID: 29049607 PMCID: PMC5744673 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.3290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Importance Cytotoxic CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) participate in immune control of epithelial ovarian cancer; however, little is known about prognostic patterns of CD8+ TILs by histotype and in relation to other clinical factors. Objective To define the prognostic role of CD8+ TILs in epithelial ovarian cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants This was a multicenter observational, prospective survival cohort study of the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis Consortium. More than 5500 patients, including 3196 with high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas (HGSOCs), were followed prospectively for over 24 650 person-years. Exposures Following immunohistochemical analysis, CD8+ TILs were identified within the epithelial components of tumor islets. Patients were grouped based on the estimated number of CD8+ TILs per high-powered field: negative (none), low (1-2), moderate (3-19), and high (≥20). CD8+ TILs in a subset of patients were also assessed in a quantitative, uncategorized manner, and the functional form of associations with survival was assessed using penalized B-splines. Main Outcomes and Measures Overall survival time. Results The final sample included 5577 women; mean age at diagnosis was 58.4 years (median, 58.2 years). Among the 5 major invasive histotypes, HGSOCs showed the most infiltration. CD8+ TILs in HGSOCs were significantly associated with longer overall survival; median survival was 2.8 years for patients with no CD8+ TILs and 3.0 years, 3.8 years, and 5.1 years for patients with low, moderate, or high levels of CD8+ TILs, respectively (P value for trend = 4.2 × 10−16). A survival benefit was also observed among women with endometrioid and mucinous carcinomas, but not for those with the other histotypes. Among HGSOCs, CD8+ TILs were favorable regardless of extent of residual disease following cytoreduction, known standard treatment, and germline BRCA1 pathogenic mutation, but were not prognostic for BRCA2 mutation carriers. Evaluation of uncategorized CD8+ TIL counts showed a near-log-linear functional form. Conclusions and Relevance This study demonstrates the histotype-specific nature of immune infiltration and provides definitive evidence for a dose-response relationship between CD8+ TILs and HGSOC survival. That the extent of infiltration is prognostic, not merely its presence or absence, suggests that understanding factors that drive infiltration will be the key to unraveling outcome heterogeneity in this cancer.
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- Ellen L Goode
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Department of Health Sciences, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
- Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Division of Population Sciences, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University
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- Tissue Bank of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, Germany and Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Medical Oncology Service, HM Hospitales – Centro Integral Oncológico HM Clara Campal, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Pathology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. CIBERONC
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Familial Cancer Unit and Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, UK
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Pathology Department, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Pathology West ICPMR Westmead, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- University of Western Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Tumor Hospital), Kunming, China
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Institute of Pathology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada
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- Cancer Genomics Program, Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- The Garvan Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
- Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
- Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Suha Deen
- Department of Histopathology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
| | - Susanne K Kjaer
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- The Garvan Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Goode EL, Block MS, Kalli KR, Vierkant RA, Chen W, Fogarty ZC, Gentry-Maharaj A, Tołoczko A, Hein A, Bouligny AL, Jensen A, Osorio A, Hartkopf A, Ryan A, Chudecka-Głaz A, Magliocco AM, Hartmann A, Jung AY, Gao B, Hernandez BY, Fridley BL, McCauley BM, Kennedy CJ, Wang C, Karpinskyj C, de Sousa CB, Tiezzi DG, Wachter DL, Herpel E, Taran FA, Modugno F, Nelson G, Lubiński J, Menkiszak J, Alsop J, Lester J, García-Donas J, Nation J, Hung J, Palacios J, Rothstein JH, Kelley JL, de Andrade JM, Robles-Díaz L, Intermaggio MP, Widschwendter M, Beckmann MW, Ruebner M, Jimenez-Linan M, Singh N, Oszurek O, Harnett PR, Rambau PF, Sinn P, Wagner P, Ghatage P, Sharma R, Edwards RP, Ness RB, Orsulic S, Brucker SY, Johnatty SE, Longacre TA, Ursula E, McGuire V, Sieh W, Natanzon Y, Li Z, Whittemore AS, Anna D, Staebler A, Karlan BY, Gilks B, Bowtell DD, Høgdall E, Candido dos Reis FJ, Steed H, Campbell IG, Gronwald J, Benítez J, Koziak JM, Chang-Claude J, Moysich KB, Kelemen LE, Cook LS, Goodman MT, García MJ, Fasching PA, Kommoss S, Deen S, Kjaer SK, Menon U, Brenton JD, Pharoah PDP, Chenevix-Trench G, Huntsman DG, Winham SJ, Köbel M, Ramus SJ. Dose-Response Association of CD8+ Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Survival Time in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer. JAMA Oncol 2017. [PMID: 29049607 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.3290] [] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Abstract
Importance Cytotoxic CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) participate in immune control of epithelial ovarian cancer; however, little is known about prognostic patterns of CD8+ TILs by histotype and in relation to other clinical factors. Objective To define the prognostic role of CD8+ TILs in epithelial ovarian cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants This was a multicenter observational, prospective survival cohort study of the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis Consortium. More than 5500 patients, including 3196 with high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas (HGSOCs), were followed prospectively for over 24 650 person-years. Exposures Following immunohistochemical analysis, CD8+ TILs were identified within the epithelial components of tumor islets. Patients were grouped based on the estimated number of CD8+ TILs per high-powered field: negative (none), low (1-2), moderate (3-19), and high (≥20). CD8+ TILs in a subset of patients were also assessed in a quantitative, uncategorized manner, and the functional form of associations with survival was assessed using penalized B-splines. Main Outcomes and Measures Overall survival time. Results The final sample included 5577 women; mean age at diagnosis was 58.4 years (median, 58.2 years). Among the 5 major invasive histotypes, HGSOCs showed the most infiltration. CD8+ TILs in HGSOCs were significantly associated with longer overall survival; median survival was 2.8 years for patients with no CD8+ TILs and 3.0 years, 3.8 years, and 5.1 years for patients with low, moderate, or high levels of CD8+ TILs, respectively (P value for trend = 4.2 × 10−16). A survival benefit was also observed among women with endometrioid and mucinous carcinomas, but not for those with the other histotypes. Among HGSOCs, CD8+ TILs were favorable regardless of extent of residual disease following cytoreduction, known standard treatment, and germline BRCA1 pathogenic mutation, but were not prognostic for BRCA2 mutation carriers. Evaluation of uncategorized CD8+ TIL counts showed a near-log-linear functional form. Conclusions and Relevance This study demonstrates the histotype-specific nature of immune infiltration and provides definitive evidence for a dose-response relationship between CD8+ TILs and HGSOC survival. That the extent of infiltration is prognostic, not merely its presence or absence, suggests that understanding factors that drive infiltration will be the key to unraveling outcome heterogeneity in this cancer.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Ellen L Goode
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Matthew S Block
- Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | | | - Robert A Vierkant
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Wenqian Chen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| | - Zachary C Fogarty
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
| | - Aleksandra Tołoczko
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Alexander Hein
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
| | - Aliecia L Bouligny
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA,Department of Health Sciences, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Allan Jensen
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ana Osorio
- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain,Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
| | - Andreas Hartkopf
- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Andy Ryan
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Bo Gao
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Australia
| | | | - Brooke L Fridley
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Division of Population Sciences, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Bryan M McCauley
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Catherine J Kennedy
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Chen Wang
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Chloe Karpinskyj
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
| | - Daniel G Tiezzi
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University
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- Tissue Bank of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, Germany and Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Medical Oncology Service, HM Hospitales – Centro Integral Oncológico HM Clara Campal, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Pathology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. CIBERONC
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Joseph L Kelley
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
| | - Luis Robles-Díaz
- Familial Cancer Unit and Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
| | - Martin Widschwendter
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, UK
| | - Oleg Oszurek
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Paul R Harnett
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Australia
| | - Peter F Rambau
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,Pathology Department, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Prafull Ghatage
- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Pathology West ICPMR Westmead, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia,University of Western Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Robert P Edwards
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Roberta B Ness
- The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Sandra Orsulic
- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Sara Y Brucker
- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Sharon E Johnatty
- Department of Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Teri A Longacre
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Eilber Ursula
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Valerie McGuire
- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Weiva Sieh
- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA,Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Tumor Hospital), Kunming, China
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Institute of Pathology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada
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- Cancer Genomics Program, Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia,The Garvan Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Francisco J Candido dos Reis
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
| | - Helen Steed
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| | - Ian G Campbell
- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Australia,Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Jacek Gronwald
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Javier Benítez
- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain,Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany,University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Kirsten B Moysich
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
| | - Linda E Kelemen
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, SC, USA
| | - Linda S Cook
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | - Marc T Goodman
- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - María José García
- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain,Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
| | - Peter A Fasching
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany,David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Stefan Kommoss
- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Suha Deen
- Department of Histopathology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
| | - Susanne K Kjaer
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Usha Menon
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
| | - James D Brenton
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge, UK,Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK,Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
| | - Paul DP Pharoah
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK,Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| | - Stacey J Winham
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Martin Köbel
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| | - Susan J Ramus
- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,The Garvan Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Goode EL, Block MS, Kalli KR, Vierkant RA, Chen W, Fogarty ZC, Gentry-Maharaj A, Tołoczko A, Hein A, Bouligny AL, Jensen A, Osorio A, Hartkopf A, Ryan A, Chudecka-Głaz A, Magliocco AM, Hartmann A, Jung AY, Gao B, Hernandez BY, Fridley BL, McCauley BM, Kennedy CJ, Wang C, Karpinskyj C, de Sousa CB, Tiezzi DG, Wachter DL, Herpel E, Taran FA, Modugno F, Nelson G, Lubiński J, Menkiszak J, Alsop J, Lester J, García-Donas J, Nation J, Hung J, Palacios J, Rothstein JH, Kelley JL, de Andrade JM, Robles-Díaz L, Intermaggio MP, Widschwendter M, Beckmann MW, Ruebner M, Jimenez-Linan M, Singh N, Oszurek O, Harnett PR, Rambau PF, Sinn P, Wagner P, Ghatage P, Sharma R, Edwards RP, Ness RB, Orsulic S, Brucker SY, Johnatty SE, Longacre TA, Ursula E, McGuire V, Sieh W, Natanzon Y, Li Z, Whittemore AS, Anna D, Staebler A, Karlan BY, Gilks B, Bowtell DD, Høgdall E, Candido dos Reis FJ, Steed H, Campbell IG, Gronwald J, Benítez J, Koziak JM, Chang-Claude J, Moysich KB, Kelemen LE, Cook LS, Goodman MT, García MJ, Fasching PA, Kommoss S, Deen S, Kjaer SK, Menon U, Brenton JD, Pharoah PDP, Chenevix-Trench G, Huntsman DG, Winham SJ, Köbel M, Ramus SJ. Dose-Response Association of CD8+ Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Survival Time in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer. JAMA Oncol 2017. [PMID: 29049607 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.3290]+[] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Abstract
Importance Cytotoxic CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) participate in immune control of epithelial ovarian cancer; however, little is known about prognostic patterns of CD8+ TILs by histotype and in relation to other clinical factors. Objective To define the prognostic role of CD8+ TILs in epithelial ovarian cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants This was a multicenter observational, prospective survival cohort study of the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis Consortium. More than 5500 patients, including 3196 with high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas (HGSOCs), were followed prospectively for over 24 650 person-years. Exposures Following immunohistochemical analysis, CD8+ TILs were identified within the epithelial components of tumor islets. Patients were grouped based on the estimated number of CD8+ TILs per high-powered field: negative (none), low (1-2), moderate (3-19), and high (≥20). CD8+ TILs in a subset of patients were also assessed in a quantitative, uncategorized manner, and the functional form of associations with survival was assessed using penalized B-splines. Main Outcomes and Measures Overall survival time. Results The final sample included 5577 women; mean age at diagnosis was 58.4 years (median, 58.2 years). Among the 5 major invasive histotypes, HGSOCs showed the most infiltration. CD8+ TILs in HGSOCs were significantly associated with longer overall survival; median survival was 2.8 years for patients with no CD8+ TILs and 3.0 years, 3.8 years, and 5.1 years for patients with low, moderate, or high levels of CD8+ TILs, respectively (P value for trend = 4.2 × 10−16). A survival benefit was also observed among women with endometrioid and mucinous carcinomas, but not for those with the other histotypes. Among HGSOCs, CD8+ TILs were favorable regardless of extent of residual disease following cytoreduction, known standard treatment, and germline BRCA1 pathogenic mutation, but were not prognostic for BRCA2 mutation carriers. Evaluation of uncategorized CD8+ TIL counts showed a near-log-linear functional form. Conclusions and Relevance This study demonstrates the histotype-specific nature of immune infiltration and provides definitive evidence for a dose-response relationship between CD8+ TILs and HGSOC survival. That the extent of infiltration is prognostic, not merely its presence or absence, suggests that understanding factors that drive infiltration will be the key to unraveling outcome heterogeneity in this cancer.
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| | - Ellen L Goode
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Matthew S Block
- Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | | | - Robert A Vierkant
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Wenqian Chen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| | - Zachary C Fogarty
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
| | - Aleksandra Tołoczko
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Alexander Hein
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
| | - Aliecia L Bouligny
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA,Department of Health Sciences, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Allan Jensen
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ana Osorio
- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain,Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
| | - Andreas Hartkopf
- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Andy Ryan
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | | | - Arndt Hartmann
- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University
| | - Audrey Y Jung
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Bo Gao
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Australia
| | | | - Brooke L Fridley
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Division of Population Sciences, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Bryan M McCauley
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Catherine J Kennedy
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Chen Wang
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Chloe Karpinskyj
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
| | - Christiani B de Sousa
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University
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- Tissue Bank of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, Germany and Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA,Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Gynecological Surgery and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Medical Oncology Service, HM Hospitales – Centro Integral Oncológico HM Clara Campal, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Pathology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. CIBERONC
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Familial Cancer Unit and Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, UK
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,Pathology Department, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Pathology West ICPMR Westmead, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia,University of Western Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA,Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Tumor Hospital), Kunming, China
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Institute of Pathology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Women’s Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada
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- Cancer Genomics Program, Research Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia,The Garvan Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Australia,Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain,Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany,University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain,Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Comprehensive Cancer Center, Erlangen EMN, Germany,David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Tübingen University Hospital, Department of Women’s Health, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Histopathology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
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- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Department of Women’s Cancer, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge, UK,Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK,Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK,Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,The Garvan Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Irani S, Bidari-Zerehpoush F. BRCA1/2 Mutations in Salivary Pleomorphic Adenoma and Carcinoma-ex-Pleomorphic Adenoma. J Int Soc Prev Community Dent 2017; 7:S155-S162. [PMID: 29285471 PMCID: PMC5730978 DOI: 10.4103/jispcd.jispcd_184_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Objectives: It is hypothesized that carcinoma-ex-pleomorphic adenoma (Ca-ex-PA) is malignant from the beginning or is a malignant transformation of a recurrent or a long-standing pleomorphic adenoma (PA). The accumulation of genetic instabilities is suggested to be the main reason for malignant transformation in PA. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of BRCA1/2 mutations in PA and Ca-ex-PA. Materials and Methods: A total of ninety salivary gland tumors (45 Ca ex-PA and 45 PA) were selected. Immunohistochemistry was performed for all samples. Analyses were conducted through SPSS software version 22.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Chi-square test was used to examine the differences between the variables. Significant level was set at 0.05. Results: In general, 93.3% of PA samples showed positive staining for BRCA1 (in myoepithelial cells); however, BRCA2 positivity was found in 60% of samples (in myoepithelial cells). Among 45 samples of Ca-ex-PA, 93.3% of showed positivity for BRCA1 and 80% of samples showed positivity for BRCA2. Chi-square test found differences between PAs and Ca-ex-PAs regarding BRCA1/2 mutations in ductal cells and myoepithelial cells (P = 0.007, 0.000), respectively. Conclusions: The present study found a trend toward the presence of BRCA1/2 mutations in PA and Ca-ex-PA samples. Patients with BRCA1/2 mutation carriers are excellent cases for therapies, such as the poly (ADP) ribose polymerase inhibitor.
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- Soussan Irani
- Department of Oral Pathology, Dental Research Center, Dental Faculty, Hamadan and Griffith University, School of Medicine, Gold Coast, Australia
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Norquist BM, Brady MF, Harrell MI, Walsh T, Lee MK, Gulsuner S, Bernards SS, Casadei S, Burger RA, Tewari KS, Backes F, Mannel RS, Glaser G, Bailey C, Rubin S, Soper J, Lankes HA, Ramirez NC, King MC, Birrer MJ, Swisher EM. Mutations in Homologous Recombination Genes and Outcomes in Ovarian Carcinoma Patients in GOG 218: An NRG Oncology/Gynecologic Oncology Group Study. Clin Cancer Res 2017; 24:777-783. [PMID: 29191972 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-17-1327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Purpose: We hypothesized that mutations in homologous recombination repair (HRR) genes beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2 improve outcomes for ovarian carcinoma patients treated with platinum therapy and would impact the relative benefit of adding prolonged bevacizumab.Experimental Design: We sequenced DNA from blood and/or neoplasm from 1,195 women enrolled in GOG-0218, a randomized phase III trial in advanced ovarian carcinoma of bevacizumab added to carboplatin and paclitaxel. Defects in HRR were defined as damaging mutations in 16 genes. Proportional hazards models were used to estimate relative hazards for progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).Results: Of 1,195 women with ovarian carcinoma, HRR mutations were identified in 307 (25.7%). Adjusted hazards for progression and death compared with those without mutations were lower for women with non-BRCA HRR mutations [HR = 0.73; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.57-0.94; P = 0.01 for PFS; HR = 0.67; 95% CI, 0.50-0.90; P = 0.007 for OS] and BRCA1 mutations (HR = 0.80; 95% CI, 0.66-0.97; P = 0.02 for PFS; HR = 0.74; 95% CI, 0.59-0.94; P = 0.01 for OS) and were lowest for BRCA2 mutations (HR = 0.52; 95% CI, 0.40-0.67; P < 0.0001 for PFS; HR = 0.36; 95% CI, 0.25-0.53; P < 0.0001 for OS). A test of interaction showed no difference in the effect of bevacizumab on PFS between cases with and without mutations.Conclusions: HRR mutations, including non-BRCA genes, significantly prolong PFS and OS in ovarian carcinoma and should be stratified for in clinical trials. The benefit of adding bevacizumab was not significantly modified by mutation status. Clin Cancer Res; 24(4); 777-83. ©2017 AACR.
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- Barbara M Norquist
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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- The NRG Oncology Statistical and Data Center, Roswell Park Cancer Center Institute, Buffalo, New York
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of California at Irvine, Orange, California
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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- Division of Gynecologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Minnesota Oncology, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.,Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Efremova M, Finotello F, Rieder D, Trajanoski Z. Neoantigens Generated by Individual Mutations and Their Role in Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy. Front Immunol 2017; 8:1679. [PMID: 29234329 PMCID: PMC5712389 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent preclinical and clinical studies have proved the long-standing hypothesis that tumors elicit adaptive immune responses and that the antigens driving effective T-cell response are neoantigens, i.e., peptides that are generated from somatically mutated genes. Hence, the characterization of neoantigens and the identification of the immunogenic ones are of utmost importance for improving cancer immunotherapy and broadening its efficacy to a larger fraction of patients. In this review, we first introduce the methods used for the quantification of neoantigens using next-generation sequencing data and then summarize results obtained using these tools to characterize the neoantigen landscape in solid cancers. We then discuss the importance of neoantigens for cancer immunotherapy using checkpoint blockers, vaccination, and adoptive T-cell transfer. Finally, we give an overview over emerging aspects in cancer immunity, including tumor heterogeneity and immunoediting, and give an outlook on future prospects.
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- Mirjana Efremova
- Biocenter, Division of Bioinformatics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Biocenter, Division of Bioinformatics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Biocenter, Division of Bioinformatics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Biocenter, Division of Bioinformatics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Sato H, Niimi A, Yasuhara T, Permata TBM, Hagiwara Y, Isono M, Nuryadi E, Sekine R, Oike T, Kakoti S, Yoshimoto Y, Held KD, Suzuki Y, Kono K, Miyagawa K, Nakano T, Shibata A. DNA double-strand break repair pathway regulates PD-L1 expression in cancer cells. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1751. [PMID: 29170499 PMCID: PMC5701012 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01883-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 478] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Accumulating evidence suggests that exogenous cellular stress induces PD-L1 upregulation in cancer. A DNA double-strand break (DSB) is the most critical type of genotoxic stress, but the involvement of DSB repair in PD-L1 expression has not been investigated. Here we show that PD-L1 expression in cancer cells is upregulated in response to DSBs. This upregulation requires ATM/ATR/Chk1 kinases. Using an siRNA library targeting DSB repair genes, we discover that BRCA2 depletion enhances Chk1-dependent PD-L1 upregulation after X-rays or PARP inhibition. In addition, we show that Ku70/80 depletion substantially enhances PD-L1 upregulation after X-rays. The upregulation by Ku80 depletion requires Chk1 activation following DNA end-resection by Exonuclease 1. DSBs activate STAT1 and STAT3 signalling, and IRF1 is required for DSB-dependent PD-L1 upregulation. Thus, our findings reveal the involvement of DSB repair in PD-L1 expression and provide mechanistic insight into how PD-L1 expression is regulated after DSBs.
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- Hiro Sato
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Research Program for Heavy Ion Therapy, Division of Integrated Oncology Research, Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR), Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Radiology, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Advanced Scientific Research Leaders Development Unit, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Advanced Scientific Research Leaders Development Unit, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- International Open Laboratory, Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR), Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Radiology, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
- Research Program for Heavy Ion Therapy, Division of Integrated Oncology Research, Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR), Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Advanced Scientific Research Leaders Development Unit, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan.
- Education and Research Support Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan.
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Corrado G, Salutari V, Palluzzi E, Distefano MG, Scambia G, Ferrandina G. Optimizing treatment in recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2017; 17:1147-1158. [DOI: 10.1080/14737140.2017.1398088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Giacomo Corrado
- Department of Health of Woman and Child, Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health of Woman and Child, Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health of Woman and Child, Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health of Woman and Child, Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health of Woman and Child, Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health of Woman and Child, Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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Hendry S, Salgado R, Gevaert T, Russell PA, John T, Thapa B, Christie M, van de Vijver K, Estrada MV, Gonzalez-Ericsson PI, Sanders M, Solomon B, Solinas C, Van den Eynden GGGM, Allory Y, Preusser M, Hainfellner J, Pruneri G, Vingiani A, Demaria S, Symmans F, Nuciforo P, Comerma L, Thompson EA, Lakhani S, Kim SR, Schnitt S, Colpaert C, Sotiriou C, Scherer SJ, Ignatiadis M, Badve S, Pierce RH, Viale G, Sirtaine N, Penault-Llorca F, Sugie T, Fineberg S, Paik S, Srinivasan A, Richardson A, Wang Y, Chmielik E, Brock J, Johnson DB, Balko J, Wienert S, Bossuyt V, Michiels S, Ternes N, Burchardi N, Luen SJ, Savas P, Klauschen F, Watson PH, Nelson BH, Criscitiello C, O’Toole S, Larsimont D, de Wind R, Curigliano G, André F, Lacroix-Triki M, van de Vijver M, Rojo F, Floris G, Bedri S, Sparano J, Rimm D, Nielsen T, Kos Z, Hewitt S, Singh B, Farshid G, Loibl S, Allison KH, Tung N, Adams S, Willard-Gallo K, Horlings HM, Gandhi L, Moreira A, Hirsch F, Dieci MV, Urbanowicz M, Brcic I, Korski K, Gaire F, Koeppen H, Lo A, Giltnane J, Ziai J, Rebelatto MC, Steele KE, Zha J, Emancipator K, Juco JW, Denkert C, Reis-Filho J, Loi S, Fox SB. Assessing Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Solid Tumors: A Practical Review for Pathologists and Proposal for a Standardized Method from the International Immuno-Oncology Biomarkers Working Group: Part 2: TILs in Melanoma, Gastrointestinal Tract Carcinomas, Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma and Mesothelioma, Endometrial and Ovarian Carcinomas, Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck, Genitourinary Carcinomas, and Primary Brain Tumors. Adv Anat Pathol 2017; 24:311-335. [PMID: 28777143 PMCID: PMC5638696 DOI: 10.1097/pap.0000000000000161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 481] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Assessment of the immune response to tumors is growing in importance as the prognostic implications of this response are increasingly recognized, and as immunotherapies are evaluated and implemented in different tumor types. However, many different approaches can be used to assess and describe the immune response, which limits efforts at implementation as a routine clinical biomarker. In part 1 of this review, we have proposed a standardized methodology to assess tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in solid tumors, based on the International Immuno-Oncology Biomarkers Working Group guidelines for invasive breast carcinoma. In part 2 of this review, we discuss the available evidence for the prognostic and predictive value of TILs in common solid tumors, including carcinomas of the lung, gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary system, gynecologic system, and head and neck, as well as primary brain tumors, mesothelioma and melanoma. The particularities and different emphases in TIL assessment in different tumor types are discussed. The standardized methodology we propose can be adapted to different tumor types and may be used as a standard against which other approaches can be compared. Standardization of TIL assessment will help clinicians, researchers and pathologists to conclusively evaluate the utility of this simple biomarker in the current era of immunotherapy.
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- Shona Hendry
- Department of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory/Breast International Group, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
- Department of Pathology and TCRU, GZA, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Laboratory of Experimental Urology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Pathology, AZ Klina, Brasschaat, Belgium
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- Department of Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia
- Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia
- Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Australia
- School of Cancer Medicine, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Australia
- Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia
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- Divisions of Diagnostic Oncology & Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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- Molecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Molecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- Department of Pathology, GZA Ziekenhuizen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Université Paris-Est, Créteil, France
- INSERM, UMR 955, Créteil, France
- Département de pathologie, APHP, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Créteil, France
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- Department of Medicine, Clinical Division of Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Centre Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Neurology, Comprehensive Cancer Centre Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
- University of Milan, School of Medicine, Milan, Italy
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- European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
- University of Milan, School of Medicine, Milan, Italy
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- New York University Medical School, New York, USA
- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Molecular Oncology Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Clinical Research and School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Pathology Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Operations Center/NRG Oncology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Cancer Research Institute and Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Boston, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Pathology, GZA Ziekenhuizen, Sint-Augustinus, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Academic Medical Innovation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
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- Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network, Central Laboratory and Program in Immunology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Surgical Pathology and Biopathology, Jean Perrin Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- University of Auvergne UMR1240, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical School, Hirakata, Japan
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- Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
- The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Operations Center/NRG Oncology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Severance Biomedical Science Institute and Department of Medical Oncology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Operations Center/NRG Oncology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and Lifespan Medical Center, Providence, USA
- Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, USA
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- Tumor Pathology Department, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Gliwice, Poland
- Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, USA
- Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, USA
- Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, USA
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- Institute of Pathology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- VMscope GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
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- Service de Biostatistique et d’Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, CESP, Inserm U1018, Université-Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Service de Biostatistique et d’Epidémiologie, Gustave Roussy, CESP, Inserm U1018, Université-Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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- The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Trev & Joyce Deeley Research Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Trev & Joyce Deeley Research Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
- Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- The Cancer Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia
- Australian Clinical Labs, Bella Vista, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- INSERM Unit U981, and Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Sud, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM Unit U981, and Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Pathology Department, IIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Oncology, Montefiore Medical Centre, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
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- Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Centre, New York, USA
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- Directorate of Surgical Pathology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
- Discipline of Medicine, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
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- New York University Medical School, New York, USA
- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Molecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
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- Pulmonary Pathology, New York University Center for Biospecimen Research and Development, New York University, New York, USA
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- Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- Medical Oncology 2, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, Padua, Italy
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- European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Pathology and Tissue Analytics, Roche Innovation Centre Munich, Penzberg, Germany
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- Pathology and Tissue Analytics, Roche Innovation Centre Munich, Penzberg, Germany
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- Research Pathology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, USA
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- Research Pathology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, USA
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
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- Research Pathology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, USA
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- Translational Sciences, MedImmune, Gaithersberg, USA
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- Institute of Pathology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Anomalies de la réparation de l’ADN et cancers gynécologiques. Bull Cancer 2017; 104:971-980. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bulcan.2017.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mismatch repair status and PD-L1 expression in clear cell carcinomas of the ovary and endometrium. Mod Pathol 2017; 30:1622-1632. [PMID: 28752845 DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2017.67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2017] [Revised: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Clear cell carcinoma represents a distinct histologic type of müllerian carcinoma that is resistant to conventional chemotherapy. Expression of programmed cell death ligand (PD-L1) has been associated with immune evasion in numerous tumor types and may be used to identify patients who will benefit from targeted immunotherapy, particularly in the setting of mismatch repair defects. We evaluated PD-L1 expression in 23 ovarian clear cell carcinomas and 21 endometrial clear cell carcinomas, and correlated expression with mismatch repair status. Tumor PD-L1 staining was seen in 43% of ovarian tumors and 76% of endometrial tumors, including 71% of cases (67% of ovarian and 75% of endometrial) with mismatch repair defects. Extensive tumoral staining (>50%) was seen in only one case (an endometrial case with MSH6 loss). However, tumoral PD-L1 expression remained common in mismatch repair-intact tumors and mismatch repair status was not significantly correlated with PD-L1 expression. The increased incidence of PD-L1 positivity in tumor cells (P=0.04) in endometrial vs ovarian clear cell carcinomas suggests differences in the tumor microenvironment of these histologically and molecularly similar tumors that may inform treatment options. These results suggest that clear cell histology may be a useful susceptibility marker for immunotherapy targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis irrespective of mismatch repair status, particularly in endometrial carcinomas.
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Ascierto PA, Daniele B, Hammers H, Hirsh V, Kim J, Licitra L, Nanda R, Pignata S. Perspectives in immunotherapy: meeting report from the "Immunotherapy Bridge", Napoli, November 30th 2016. J Transl Med 2017; 15:205. [PMID: 29020960 PMCID: PMC5637331 DOI: 10.1186/s12967-017-1309-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 09/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The complex interactions between the immune system and tumors lead the identification of key molecules that govern these interactions: immunotherapeutics were designed to overcome the mechanisms broken by tumors to evade immune destruction. After the substantial advances in melanoma, immunotherapy currently includes many other type of cancers, but the melanoma lesson is essential to progress in other type of cancers, since immunotherapy is potentially improving clinical outcome in various solid and haematologic malignancies. Monotherapy in pre-treated NSCLC is studied and the use of nivolumab, pembrolizumab and atezolizumab as second-line of advanced NSCLC is demonstrated as well as first line monotherapy and combination therapy in metastatic NSCLC studied. Patients with HNSCC have immunotherapeutic promises as well: the FDA recently approved moAbs targeting immune checkpoint receptors. Nivolumab in combination with ipilumumab showed acceptable safety and encouraging antitumor activity in metastatic renal carcinoma. HCCs have significant amounts of genomic heterogeneity and multiple oncogenic pathways can be activated: the best therapeutic targets identification is ongoing. The treatment of advanced/relapsed EOC remain clearly an unmet need: a better understanding of the relevant immuno-oncologic pathways and their corresponding biomarkers are required. UC is an immunotherapy-responsive disease: after atezolizumab, three other PD-L1/PD-L1 inhibitors (nivolumab, durvalumab, and avelumab) were approved for treatment of platinum-refractory metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monotherapy is associated with a modest response rate in metastatic breast cancer; the addition of chemotherapy is associated with higher response rates. Immunotherapy safety profile is advantageous, although, in contrast to conventional chemotherapy: boosting the immune system leads to a unique constellation of inflammatory toxicities known as immune-related Adverse Events (irAEs) that may warrant the discontinuation of therapy and/or the administration of immunosuppressive agents. Research should explore better combination with less side effects, the right duration of treatments, combination or sequencing treatments with target therapies. At present, treatment decision is based on patient's characteristics.
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- Paolo A. Ascierto
- Unit of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapy, Istituto Nazionale Tumori “Fondazione G. Pascale”, Via Mariano Semmola, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Medical Oncology Unit, G. Rummo Hospital, Benevento, Italy
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- McGill Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Section of Hematology–Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Urology and Gynecology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori “Fondazione G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
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Vanderstichele A, Busschaert P, Olbrecht S, Lambrechts D, Vergote I. Genomic signatures as predictive biomarkers of homologous recombination deficiency in ovarian cancer. Eur J Cancer 2017; 86:5-14. [PMID: 28950147 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2017.08.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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DNA repair deficiency is a common hallmark of many cancers and is increasingly recognised as a target for cancer therapeutics. Selecting patients for these treatments requires a functional assessment of multiple redundant DNA repair pathways. With the advent of whole-genome sequencing of cancer genomes, it is increasingly recognised that multiple signatures of mutational and chromosomal alterations can be correlated with specific DNA repair defects. The clinical relevance of this approach is underlined by the use of poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) in homologous recombination (HR) deficient high-grade serous ovarian cancers. Beyond deleterious mutations in HR-related genes such as BRCA1/2, it is recognised that HR deficiency endows ovarian cancers with specific signatures of base substitutions and structural chromosomal variation. Multiple metrics quantifying loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH) events were proposed and implemented in trials with PARPi. However, it was shown that some of the HR-deficient cases, i.e. CDK12-mutated tumours, were not associated with high LOH-based scores, but with distinct patterns of genomic alterations such as tandem duplication. Therefore, more complex signatures of structural genomic variation were identified and quantified. Ultimately, optimal prediction models for treatments targeting DNA repair will need to integrate multiples of these genomic signatures and will also need to assess multiple resistance mechanisms such as genomic reversion events that partially or fully re-activate DNA repair.
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- Adriaan Vanderstichele
- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Division of Gynaecological Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Division of Gynaecological Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Division of Gynaecological Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium; Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; Division of Gynaecological Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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James FR, Jiminez-Linan M, Alsop J, Mack M, Song H, Brenton JD, Pharoah PDP, Ali HR. Association between tumour infiltrating lymphocytes, histotype and clinical outcome in epithelial ovarian cancer. BMC Cancer 2017; 17:657. [PMID: 28931370 PMCID: PMC5607562 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3585-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is evidence that some ovarian tumours evoke an immune response, which can be assessed by tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). To facilitate adoption of TILs as a clinical biomarker, a standardised method for their H&E visual evaluation has been validated in breast cancer. METHODS We sought to investigate the prognostic significance of TILs in a study of 953 invasive epithelial ovarian cancer tumour samples, both primary and metastatic, from 707 patients from the prospective population-based SEARCH study. TILs were analysed using a standardised method based on H&E staining producing a percentage score for stromal and intratumoral compartments. We used Cox regression to estimate hazard ratios of the association between TILs and survival. RESULTS The extent of stromal and intra-tumoral TILs were correlated in the primary tumours (n = 679, Spearman's rank correlation = 0.60, P < 0.001) with a similar correlation in secondary tumours (n = 224, Spearman's rank correlation = 0.62, P < 0.001). There was a weak correlation between stromal TIL levels in primary and secondary tumour samples (Spearman's rank correlation = 0.29, P < 0.001) and intra-tumoral TIL levels in primary and secondary tumour samples (Spearman's rank correlation = 0.19, P = 0.0094). The extent of stromal TILs differed between histotypes (Pearson chi2 (12d.f.) 54.1, P < 0.0001) with higher levels of stromal infiltration in the high-grade serous and endometriod cases. A significant association was observed for higher intratumoral TIL levels and a favourable prognosis (HR 0.74 95% CI 0.55-1.00 p = 0.047). CONCLUSION This study is the largest collection of epithelial ovarian tumour samples evaluated for TILs. We have shown that stromal and intratumoral TIL levels are correlated and that their levels correlate with clinical variables such as tumour histological subtype. We have also shown that increased levels of both intratumoral and stromal TILs are associated with a better prognosis; however, this is only statistically significant for intratumoral TILs. This study suggests that a clinically useful immune prognostic indicator in epithelial ovarian cancer could be developed using this technique.
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- Fiona R. James
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Lancashire, UK
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Ventriglia J, Paciolla I, Pisano C, Cecere SC, Di Napoli M, Tambaro R, Califano D, Losito S, Scognamiglio G, Setola SV, Arenare L, Pignata S, Della Pepa C. Immunotherapy in ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancer: State of the art and future perspectives. Cancer Treat Rev 2017; 59:109-116. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Li J, Wang J, Chen R, Bai Y, Lu X. The prognostic value of tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes in ovarian cancer. Oncotarget 2017; 8:15621-15631. [PMID: 28152503 PMCID: PMC5362510 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.14919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The prognostic value of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in ovarian cancer is still in controversial. This study is aimed to assess the impact of different TIL subsets on the progression free survival (PFS)/disease free survival (DSS) and overall survival (OS)/disease specific survival (DSS) in ovarian cancer. A comprehensive literature search in PubMed, ISI Web of Science, and Medline was performed to identify relevant studies evaluating the prognostic value of TILs in ovarian cancer. Reviews of each study were conducted and data were extracted. The main outcomes analyzed were PFS/DFS and OS/DSS. A total of 21 eligible studies enrolling 2903 ovarian cancer patients were included for the meta-analysis. The overall analysis revealed that intraepithelial CD3+ and CD8+ TILs were strongly associated with improved PFS/DFS (HR=0.53, for CD3+ TILs; and HR=0.50, for CD8+ TILs). Intraepithelial CD8+/Foxp3+ ratios appeared to be associated with improved PFS, though without reaching statistical significance (HR=0.73). Moreover, intraepithelial CD3+, CD8+, and CD103+ TILs were clearly associated with increased OS/DSS (HR=0.50, for CD3+ TILs; HR=0.62, for CD8+ TILs; HR=0.54, for CD103+ TILs). However, intraepithelial FoxP3+ TILs, CD8+/FoxP3+ ratios, CD8+/CD4+ ratios, and stromal TILs had no impact on the OS/DSS (HR=0.98, for FoxP3+ TILs; HR=0.69, for CD8+/FoxP3+ ratios; HR=0.48, for CD8+/CD4+ ratios; HR=0.82, for stromal TILs). In conclusion, the present meta-analysis supports the hypothesis that intraepithelial TILs are predictive biomarkers for the prognosis of ovarian cancer patients. Future randomized studies are needed to verify these observations.
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- Jun Li
- Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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Genetic abnormalities are present in all tumor types, although the frequency and type can vary. Chromosome abnormalities include highly aberrant structures, particularly chromothriptic chromosomes. The generation of massive sequencing data has illuminated the scope of the mutational burden in cancer genomes, identifying patterns of mutations (mutation signatures), which have the potential to shed light on the relatedness and etiologies of cancers and impact therapy response. Some mutation patterns are clearly attributable to disruptions in pathways that maintain genomic integrity. Here we review recent advances in our understanding of genetic changes occurring in cancers and the roles of genome maintenance pathways.
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- Elizabeth M Kass
- Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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INTRODUCTION Common recurrent genetic alterations have been identified in prostate cancer through comprehensive sequencing efforts, and the prevalence of mutations in DNA repair pathway genes in patients with advanced and metastatic disease approaches 20-25%. Identification of these underlying DNA repair defects may present unique treatment opportunities for patients, both in terms of standard-of-care treatments and selected investigational agents. Areas covered: We review our current understanding of the genomic landscape of prostate cancer, with special attention to alterations in DNA repair pathway genes in metastatic castration-resistant disease. For patients with tumors deficient in homologous recombination repair, potential opportunities for treatment include platinum chemotherapy, poly(ADP) ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, bipolar androgen therapy, and maybe immune checkpoint blockade therapy. In addition, tumors with mismatch repair defects (i.e. microsatellite instability) may be particularly susceptible to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. Expert commentary: We anticipate that genomic profiling of tumors will become necessary to guide treatment of advanced prostate cancer in the coming years. Work is needed to define the optimal tissue to test, and to define the natural history of tumors with specific genetic defects. The prognostic and therapeutic importance of germline vs somatic DNA repair alterations, and mono-allelic vs bi-allelic inactivation, also remains unclear. Finally, optimal strategies to sequence or combine targeted agents for these patients with 'actionable' mutations are now needed.
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- Benjamin A. Teply
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The proven activity of poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors in BRCA-mutated homologous recombination deficient (HRD) ovarian cancer has led to the availability to patients with ovarian cancer of the first targeted therapy with an associated predictive biomarker. Our focus has recently turned towards expanding the clinical utility of PARP inhibitors beyond BRCA mutated ovarian cancer, and to a search for novel targets within DNA damage response (DDR). RECENT FINDINGS Early trials in unselected patients with ovarian cancer showed responses to PARP inhibition in BRCA-wildtype ovarian cancer, and recent genomic studies have demonstrated that germline or somatic aberrations in other homologous recombination genes are present in a significant proportion of ovarian cancers. In addition, PARP inhibition may be of value in molecularly defined subsets of endometrial or cervical cancers. Novel DDR inhibitors such as ATR, ATM, WEE1 or DNA-PK inhibitors are also being tested in patients. Finally, combinatorial strategies of DDR inhibitors with antiangiogenic agents, phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitors or immunotherapies may further increase therapeutic efficacy. SUMMARY In the future, patients with gynaecological malignancies may be rationally selected for PARP inhibition on the basis of comprehensive evaluation of homologous recombination genomic alterations, or HRD assays. Furthermore, novel DDR inhibitors have the potential to expand the repertoire of therapeutic options available to these patients.
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Mouw KW, Goldberg MS, Konstantinopoulos PA, D'Andrea AD. DNA Damage and Repair Biomarkers of Immunotherapy Response. Cancer Discov 2017; 7:675-693. [PMID: 28630051 PMCID: PMC5659200 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-17-0226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 468] [Impact Index Per Article: 66.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 05/05/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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DNA-damaging agents are widely used in clinical oncology and exploit deficiencies in tumor DNA repair. Given the expanding role of immune checkpoint blockade as a therapeutic strategy, the interaction of tumor DNA damage with the immune system has recently come into focus, and it is now clear that the tumor DNA repair landscape has an important role in driving response to immune checkpoint blockade. Here, we summarize the mechanisms by which DNA damage and genomic instability have been found to shape the antitumor immune response and describe clinical efforts to use DNA repair biomarkers to guide use of immune-directed therapies.Significance: Only a subset of patients respond to immune checkpoint blockade, and reliable predictive biomarkers of response are needed to guide therapy decisions. DNA repair deficiency is common among tumors, and emerging experimental and clinical evidence suggests that features of genomic instability are associated with response to immune-directed therapies. Cancer Discov; 7(7); 675-93. ©2017 AACR.
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- Kent W Mouw
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham & Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Medical Gynecology Oncology Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Center for DNA Damage and Repair, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham & Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ludwig Center at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Center for DNA Damage and Repair, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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Boland CR, Yurgelun MB. Mutational cascades in cancer. Oncotarget 2017; 8:41784-41785. [PMID: 28620150 PMCID: PMC5522024 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.18481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Franzese O, Torino F, Fuggetta MP, Aquino A, Roselli M, Bonmassar E, Giuliani A, D’Atri S. Tumor immunotherapy: drug-induced neoantigens (xenogenization) and immune checkpoint inhibitors. Oncotarget 2017; 8:41641-41669. [PMID: 28404974 PMCID: PMC5522228 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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More than 40 years ago, we discovered that novel transplantation antigens can be induced in vivo or in vitro by treating murine leukemia with dacarbazine. Years later, this phenomenon that we called "Chemical Xenogenization" (CX) and more recently, "Drug-Induced Xenogenization" (DIX), was reproduced by Thierry Boon with a mutagenic/carcinogenic compound (i.e. N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine). In both cases, the molecular bases of DIX rely on mutagenesis induced by methyl adducts to oxygen-6 of DNA guanine. In the present review we illustrate the main DIX-related immune-pharmacodynamic properties of triazene compounds of clinical use (i.e. dacarbazine and temozolomide).In recent years, tumor immunotherapy has come back to the stage with the discovery of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICpI) that show an extraordinary immune-enhancing activity. Here we illustrate the salient biochemical features of some of the most interesting ICpI and the up-to-day status of their clinical use. Moreover, we illustrate the literature showing the direct relationship between somatic mutation burden and susceptibility of cancer cells to host's immune responses.When DIX was discovered, we were not able to satisfactorily exploit the possible presence of triazene-induced neoantigens in malignant cells since no device was available to adequately enhance host's immune responses in clinical settings. Today, ICpI show unprecedented efficacy in terms of survival times, especially when elevated mutation load is associated with cancer cells. Therefore, in the future, mutation-dependent neoantigens obtained by appropriate pharmacological intervention appear to disclose a novel approach for enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of ICpI in cancer patients.
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- Ornella Franzese
- Department of Systems Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Systems Medicine, Medical Oncology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Council of Research, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Systems Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Systems Medicine, Medical Oncology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Systems Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Council of Research, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Systems Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Council of Research, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata-IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Zhu X, Lang J. Programmed death-1 pathway blockade produces a synergistic antitumor effect: combined application in ovarian cancer. J Gynecol Oncol 2017; 28:e64. [PMID: 28657225 PMCID: PMC5540723 DOI: 10.3802/jgo.2017.28.e64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2016] [Revised: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its ligand are part of the immune checkpoint pathway that down-regulates effector T cells in immune response, thereby causing immune suppression. The PD-1/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) pathway can be blocked by antibodies to reverse tumor-mediated immunosuppression. However, advanced cancers such as stage III-IV ovarian cancer (OC) and certain types such as ID8 OC (a clone of C57BL/6 mouse OC) may hijack the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway to escape immune attack. When combined with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or other agents, these PD-1/PD-L1 pathway blockages can produce a synergistic antitumor response in OC. Combined immunotherapy significantly prolongs overall survival by changing the tumor microenvironment through processes such as increasing the number of CD4⁺ or CD8⁺ T cells or cytokines in mice with OC and decreasing the number of regulatory T cells (Tregs) and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). OC patients treated with combined immunotherapy received better prognoses than those treated with monotherapy. This review reflects the move toward novel therapy combinations for OC and discusses these promising immunotherapeutic approaches, which are more cost-effective and effective than other approaches.
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- Xinxin Zhu
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
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K. Au K, Peterson N, Truesdell P, Reid-Schachter G, Khalaj K, Ren R, Francis JA, Graham CH, Craig AW, Koti M. CXCL10 alters the tumour immune microenvironment and disease progression in a syngeneic murine model of high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 2017; 145:436-445. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2017.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2017] [Revised: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Hollis RL, Churchman M, Gourley C. Distinct implications of different BRCA mutations: efficacy of cytotoxic chemotherapy, PARP inhibition and clinical outcome in ovarian cancer. Onco Targets Ther 2017; 10:2539-2551. [PMID: 28546758 PMCID: PMC5436779 DOI: 10.2147/ott.s102569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Approximately a fifth of ovarian carcinoma (OC) is associated with inherited germline mutations, most commonly in the DNA repair genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA). BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated OCs have historically been described as a single subgroup of OC that displays a distinct set of characteristics termed the "BRCAness" phenotype. The hallmarks of this phenotype are superior clinical outcome and hypersensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy and poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. However, growing evidence suggests that BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated OCs display distinct characteristics, most notably in long-term patient survival. Furthermore, recent data indicate that the site of BRCA1 mutation is important with regard to platinum and PARP inhibitor sensitivity. Here, we summarize the body of research describing the BRCAness phenotype and highlight the differential implications of different BRCA mutations with regard to clinicopathologic features, therapy sensitivity and clinical outcome in OC.
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- Robert L Hollis
- Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, MRC IGMM, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, MRC IGMM, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, MRC IGMM, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Pfeifer CR, Alvey CM, Irianto J, Discher DE. Genome variation across cancers scales with tissue stiffness - an invasion-mutation mechanism and implications for immune cell infiltration. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 2:103-114. [PMID: 29082336 DOI: 10.1016/j.coisb.2017.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Many different types of soft and solid tumors have now been sequenced, and meta-analyses suggest that genomic variation across tumors scales with the stiffness of the tumors' tissues of origin. The opinion expressed here is based on a review of current genomics data, and it considers multiple 'mechanogenomics' mechanisms to potentially explain this scaling of mutation rate with tissue stiffness. Since stiff solid tissues have higher density of fibrous collagen matrix, which should decrease tissue porosity, cancer cell proliferation could be affected and so could invasion into stiff tissues as the nucleus is squeezed sufficiently to enhance DNA damage. Diversification of a cancer genome after constricted migration is now clear. Understanding genome changes that give rise to neo-antigens is important to selection as well as to the development of immunotherapies, and we discuss engineered monocytes/macrophages as particularly relevant to understanding infiltration into solid tumors.
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- Charlotte R Pfeifer
- Physical Sciences Oncology Center at Penn (PSOC@Penn), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Molecular & Cell Biophysics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Graduate Group / Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Physical Sciences Oncology Center at Penn (PSOC@Penn), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Molecular & Cell Biophysics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Graduate Group / Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Physical Sciences Oncology Center at Penn (PSOC@Penn), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Molecular & Cell Biophysics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Physical Sciences Oncology Center at Penn (PSOC@Penn), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Molecular & Cell Biophysics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Graduate Group / Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Graduate Group / Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Gadducci A, Guerrieri ME. PARP inhibitors alone and in combination with other biological agents in homologous recombination deficient epithelial ovarian cancer: From the basic research to the clinic. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2017; 114:153-165. [PMID: 28477743 DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2017.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Revised: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Hereditary epithelial ovarian cancer [EOC] in germline BRCA mutation (gBRCAm) carriers has a distinct clinical behavior characterized by younger age, high- grade serous histology, advanced stage, visceral distribution of disease, high response to platinum and other non-platinum agents and better clinical outcome. Sporadic EOC with homologous recombination deficiency [HDR] but no gBRCAm has the same biological and clinical behavior as EOC in gBRCAm carriers ("BRCAness"phenotype). Biomarkers are in development to enable an accurate definition of molecular features of BRCAness phenotype, and trials are warranted to determine whether such HDR signature will predict sensitivity to PARP inhibitors in sporadic EOC. Moreover, the link between PARP inhibition and angiogenesis suppression, the immunologic properties of EOC in gBRCAm carriers, the HRD induced by PI3K inhibition in EOC cells in vitro strongly support novel clinical trials testing the combination of PARP inhibitors with other biological agents.
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- Angiolo Gadducci
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Pisa, Italy.
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Pisa, Italy
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Spira A, Yurgelun MB, Alexandrov L, Rao A, Bejar R, Polyak K, Giannakis M, Shilatifard A, Finn OJ, Dhodapkar M, Kay NE, Braggio E, Vilar E, Mazzilli SA, Rebbeck TR, Garber JE, Velculescu VE, Disis ML, Wallace DC, Lippman SM. Precancer Atlas to Drive Precision Prevention Trials. Cancer Res 2017; 77:1510-1541. [PMID: 28373404 PMCID: PMC6681830 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-16-2346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2016] [Revised: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Cancer development is a complex process driven by inherited and acquired molecular and cellular alterations. Prevention is the holy grail of cancer elimination, but making this a reality will take a fundamental rethinking and deep understanding of premalignant biology. In this Perspective, we propose a national concerted effort to create a Precancer Atlas (PCA), integrating multi-omics and immunity - basic tenets of the neoplastic process. The biology of neoplasia caused by germline mutations has led to paradigm-changing precision prevention efforts, including: tumor testing for mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency in Lynch syndrome establishing a new paradigm, combinatorial chemoprevention efficacy in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), signal of benefit from imaging-based early detection research in high-germline risk for pancreatic neoplasia, elucidating early ontogeny in BRCA1-mutation carriers leading to an international breast cancer prevention trial, and insights into the intricate germline-somatic-immunity interaction landscape. Emerging genetic and pharmacologic (metformin) disruption of mitochondrial (mt) respiration increased autophagy to prevent cancer in a Li-Fraumeni mouse model (biology reproduced in clinical pilot) and revealed profound influences of subtle changes in mt DNA background variation on obesity, aging, and cancer risk. The elaborate communication between the immune system and neoplasia includes an increasingly complex cellular microenvironment and dynamic interactions between host genetics, environmental factors, and microbes in shaping the immune response. Cancer vaccines are in early murine and clinical precancer studies, building on the recent successes of immunotherapy and HPV vaccine immune prevention. Molecular monitoring in Barrett's esophagus to avoid overdiagnosis/treatment highlights an important PCA theme. Next generation sequencing (NGS) discovered age-related clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP). Ultra-deep NGS reports over the past year have redefined the premalignant landscape remarkably identifying tiny clones in the blood of up to 95% of women in their 50s, suggesting that potentially premalignant clones are ubiquitous. Similar data from eyelid skin and peritoneal and uterine lavage fluid provide unprecedented opportunities to dissect the earliest phases of stem/progenitor clonal (and microenvironment) evolution/diversity with new single-cell and liquid biopsy technologies. Cancer mutational signatures reflect exogenous or endogenous processes imprinted over time in precursors. Accelerating the prevention of cancer will require a large-scale, longitudinal effort, leveraging diverse disciplines (from genetics, biochemistry, and immunology to mathematics, computational biology, and engineering), initiatives, technologies, and models in developing an integrated multi-omics and immunity PCA - an immense national resource to interrogate, target, and intercept events that drive oncogenesis. Cancer Res; 77(7); 1510-41. ©2017 AACR.
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- Avrum Spira
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Bioinformatics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Theoretical Division, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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- Division of Signaling and Gene Expression, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Hematology and Immunology, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
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- Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Bioinformatics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Center for Translational Medicine in Women's Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
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PD-L1 Expression and Intratumoral Heterogeneity Across Breast Cancer Subtypes and Stages. Am J Surg Pathol 2017; 41:334-342. [DOI: 10.1097/pas.0000000000000780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Howitt BE, Strickland KC, Sholl LM, Rodig S, Ritterhouse LL, Chowdhury D, D'Andrea AD, Matulonis UA, Konstantinopoulos PA. Clear cell ovarian cancers with microsatellite instability: A unique subset of ovarian cancers with increased tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and PD-1/PD-L1 expression. Oncoimmunology 2017; 6:e1277308. [PMID: 28344892 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2016.1277308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Revised: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Clear cell ovarian carcinoma (CCOC) represents a distinct histologic subtype of ovarian cancer associated with significantly worse prognosis across all stages and no effective therapeutic options. Here, we report a rare but clinically important cohort of CCOCs with microsatellite instability (MSI) (MSI-CCOCs), which are highly immunogenic and may thus be very responsive to immune checkpoint blockade. CCOCs with MSI exhibit a significantly higher number of CD8+ TILs, higher CD8+/CD4+ ratio, and higher PD-1+ TILs compared with microsatellite stable (MSS) CCOCs and compared with high grade serous ovarian cancers, which are the most common histologic subtype of ovarian cancer. Of note, PD-L1 expression in tumor cells or immune cells was noted in all cases of CCOCs with MSI. These observations open an alternative therapeutic avenue for a fraction of patients with CCOC and argue for the routine testing of CCOCs for MSI, a test that is not currently routinely performed.
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- Brooke E Howitt
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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- Medical Gynecologic Oncology Program, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
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Cisplatin can be safely administered to ovarian cancer patients with hypersensitivity to carboplatin. Gynecol Oncol 2017; 144:72-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2016.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Staropoli N, Ciliberto D, Chiellino S, Caglioti F, Del Giudice T, Gualtieri S, Salvino A, Strangio A, Botta C, Pignata S, Tassone P, Tagliaferri P. Is ovarian cancer a targetable disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis and genomic data investigation. Oncotarget 2016; 7:82741-82756. [PMID: 27764790 PMCID: PMC5347729 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.12633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2016] [Accepted: 09/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES The current gold-standard for the first-line treatment in IIIb/IV stages of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel plus bevacizumab in some countries. In the era of personalized medicine, there is still uncertainty on the impact of several molecularly targeted agents, which have been investigated for the management of this disease. To shed light on the actual role of targeted therapy in EOC, a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed. METHODS Clinical trials were selected by searching "Pubmed" database and abstracts from major cancer meetings within the time-frame of January 2004-June 2015. The endpoints were survival outcome and response rate (RR). Hazard ratios (HRs) of survival outcomes, with confidence intervals and odds-ratios (ORs) of RR, were extracted from retrieved studies and used for current analysis. Meta-analysis was carried out by random effect model. RESULTS 30 randomized trials for a total of 10,530 patients were selected and included in the final analysis. A benefit in terms of OS (pooled HR 0.915; 95%CI 0.840-0.997; p=0.043), particularly for anti-angiogenetic agents (HR 0.872; 95%CI 0.761-1.000; p=0.049), has been demonstrated for targeted therapy. Moreover, a significant advantage in platinum-resistant subgroup in term of PFS (HR 0.755; 95%CI 0.624-0.912; p=0.004) was found. CONCLUSIONS This systematic review and meta-analysis provide the first evidence that targeted therapy is potentially able to translate into improved survival of EOC patients, with a major role played by anti-angiogenetic drugs. The role of target therapy is underlined in the platinum-resistant setting that represents the "pain in the neck" in EOC management.
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- Nicoletta Staropoli
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Gynecologic and Urologic Oncology, Fondazione Pascale, National Cancer Institute of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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Poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have been one of the most exciting developments in the treatment of ovarian cancer in recent years. Demonstration of anti-cancer activity has led to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval of the PARP inhibitor (PARPi) olaparib as maintenance therapy in women with BRCA-mutated (BRCAm) ovarian cancer with platinum-sensitive recurrence following response to platinum therapy and the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) approval of olaparib in relapsed germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCAm) ovarian cancer in women who have received at least three prior chemotherapy treatments, both occurring in 2014. Additional trials are underway or awaiting final analysis with olaparib, other PARPis, and PARPi combinations to further elucidate the activity of these drugs in various clinical settings. This review will focus on the current clinical experience and ongoing trials with PARPis in ovarian cancer.
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- Joyce F Liu
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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Roque DM, Santin AD. Uterine cancer, mutational phenotype, and the era of immune checkpoint blockade. Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2016; 13:175-180. [PMID: 27905822 DOI: 10.1080/1744666x.2017.1266938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Dana M Roque
- a Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences , University of Maryland School of Medicine , Baltimore , MD , USA
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- b Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences , Yale University , New Haven , CT , USA
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Inamura K, Yokouchi Y, Kobayashi M, Sakakibara R, Ninomiya H, Subat S, Nagano H, Nomura K, Okumura S, Shibutani T, Ishikawa Y. WITHDRAWN: Tumor B7-H3 (CD276) expression and smoking history in relation to lung adenocarcinoma prognosis. J Control Release 2016; 243:21-28. [PMID: 27721121 DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2016] [Revised: 09/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in The Journal of Lung Cancer - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.11.013. Please see online announcement for additional details. The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy.
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- Kentaro Inamura
- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Translational Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology Department, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., 1-2-58, Hiromachi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0005, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan; Department of Integrated Pulmonology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Thoracic Oncology Center, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
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- Translational Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology Department, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., 1-2-58, Hiromachi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0005, Japan
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- Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute; Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan.
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OBJECTIVES Compared with non-smoking counterparts, smoking-associated lung cancers have a higher mutational load, resulting in the creation of more tumor neoantigens and increased immunogenicity. B7-H3 (also known as CD276) belongs to a family of immune modulators that includes PD-1 and PD-L1 (also known as B7-H1 or CD274). Considering the evidence that PD-L1 inhibitors have been shown to be more effective against lung cancer in smokers, we herein examined the prognostic interaction of tumor B7-H3 expression level with smoking history in lung adenocarcinoma patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using tissue microarrays comprising 270 consecutive cases of lung adenocarcinoma, we evaluated tumor B7-H3 expression by immunohistochemistry. We examined the prognostic association between B7-H3 expression levels and smoking history, using Cox proportional hazards regression analysis and the log-rank test. Additionally, we used logistic regression analysis to examine the correlations between B7-H3 expression levels and clinicopathological/molecular features of lung adenocarcinoma. RESULTS The association of B7-H3 expression with survival differed by smoking history (Pinteraction=0.014); high B7-H3 expression was associated with decreased lung cancer-specific survival in moderate/heavy-smoking patients (smoking index [SI]≥400) (hazard ratio [HR]=3.07, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.74-5.49, P=0.0001; log-rank: P<0.0001), but not in non/light-smoking patients (SI<400) (HR=1.14, 95% CI=0.63-1.96, P=0.64; log-rank: P=0.64). Interestingly, in moderate/heavy-smoking patients, high B7-H3 expression was associated with decreased survival in stage I cancer (log-rank; P=0.0005), whereas it showed no significant difference of survival in stage II-IV cancer (P=0.37). High B7-H3 expression was associated with smokers (univariable odds ratio [OR]=2.63, 95% CI=1.51-4.65; P=0.0005) and independently associated with EGFR wild-type status (multivariable OR=2.80, 95% CI=1.38-5.84; P=0.0042). CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated that the prognostic association of B7-H3 expression indeed differed according to smoking history. Our study also showed the significant association of high B7-H3 expression with EGFR wild-type and smoking patients, indicating the potential effectiveness of anti-B7-H3 therapy for EGFR wild-type or smokers' lung adenocarcinoma.
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Jamieson NB, Maker AV. Gene-expression profiling to predict responsiveness to immunotherapy. Cancer Gene Ther 2016; 24:134-140. [PMID: 27834354 PMCID: PMC5386795 DOI: 10.1038/cgt.2016.63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Recent clinical successes with immunotherapy have resulted in expanding indications for cancer therapy. To enhance anti-tumor immune responses, and to better choose specific strategies matched to patient and tumor characteristics, genomic-driven precision immunotherapy will be necessary. Herein, we explore the role that tumor gene expression profiling (GEP) and transcriptome expression may play in the prediction of an immunotherapeutic response. Genetic markers associated with response to immunotherapy are addressed as they pertain to the tumor genomic landscape, the extent of DNA damage, tumor mutational load, and tumor-specific neoantigens. Furthermore, genetic markers associated with resistance to checkpoint blockade and relapse are reviewed. Finally, the utility of GEP to identify new tumor types for immunotherapy and implications for combinatorial strategies are summarized.
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- N B Jamieson
- Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Sciences and the Academic Unit of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.,West of Scotland Pancreatic Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Facteurs prédictifs et biomarqueurs précoces de réponse aux inhibiteurs de checkpoint immunologiques (anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1). ONCOLOGIE 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10269-016-2664-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Dhillon KK, Bajrami I, Taniguchi T, Lord CJ. Synthetic lethality: the road to novel therapies for breast cancer. Endocr Relat Cancer 2016; 23:T39-55. [PMID: 27528623 DOI: 10.1530/erc-16-0228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Accepted: 08/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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When the BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumour suppressor genes were identified in the early 1990s, the immediate implications of mapping, cloning and delineating the sequence of these genes were that individuals in families with a BRCA gene mutation could be tested for the presence of a mutation and their risk of developing cancer could be predicted. Over time though, the discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 has had a much greater influence than many might have imagined. In this review, we discuss how the discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 has not only provided an understanding of the molecular processes that drive tumourigenesis but also reignited an interest in therapeutically exploiting loss-of-function alterations in tumour suppressor genes.
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- The CRUK Gene Function Laboratory and Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research CentreThe Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The CRUK Gene Function Laboratory and Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research CentreThe Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Katsuki Y, Takata M. Defects in homologous recombination repair behind the human diseases: FA and HBOC. Endocr Relat Cancer 2016; 23:T19-37. [PMID: 27550963 DOI: 10.1530/erc-16-0221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome and a rare childhood disorder Fanconi anemia (FA) are caused by homologous recombination (HR) defects, and some of the causative genes overlap. Recent studies in this field have led to the exciting development of PARP inhibitors as novel cancer therapeutics and have clarified important mechanisms underlying genome instability and tumor suppression in HR-defective disorders. In this review, we provide an overview of the basic molecular mechanisms governing HR and DNA crosslink repair, highlighting BRCA2, and the intriguing relationship between HBOC and FA.
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- Yoko Katsuki
- Laboratory of DNA Damage SignalingDepartment of Late Effects Studies, Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Yoshidakonoecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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- Laboratory of DNA Damage SignalingDepartment of Late Effects Studies, Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Yoshidakonoecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Stover EH, Konstantinopoulos PA, Matulonis UA, Swisher EM. Biomarkers of Response and Resistance to DNA Repair Targeted Therapies. Clin Cancer Res 2016; 22:5651-5660. [PMID: 27678458 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-16-0247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Revised: 09/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Drugs targeting DNA damage repair (DDR) pathways are exciting new agents in cancer therapy. Many of these drugs exhibit synthetic lethality with defects in DNA repair in cancer cells. For example, ovarian cancers with impaired homologous recombination DNA repair show increased sensitivity to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Understanding the activity of different DNA repair pathways in individual tumors, and the correlations between DNA repair function and drug response, will be critical to patient selection for DNA repair targeted agents. Genomic and functional assays of DNA repair pathway activity are being investigated as potential biomarkers of response to targeted therapies. Furthermore, alterations in DNA repair function generate resistance to DNA repair targeted agents, and DNA repair states may predict intrinsic or acquired drug resistance. In this review, we provide an overview of DNA repair targeted agents currently in clinical trials and the emerging biomarkers of response and resistance to these agents: genetic and genomic analysis of DDR pathways, genomic signatures of mutational processes, expression of DNA repair proteins, and functional assays for DNA repair capacity. We review biomarkers that may predict response to selected DNA repair targeted agents, including PARP inhibitors, inhibitors of the DNA damage sensors ATM and ATR, and inhibitors of nonhomologous end joining. Finally, we introduce emerging categories of drugs targeting DDR and new strategies for integrating DNA repair targeted therapies into clinical practice, including combination regimens. Generating and validating robust biomarkers will optimize the efficacy of DNA repair targeted therapies and maximize their impact on cancer treatment. Clin Cancer Res; 22(23); 5651-60. ©2016 AACR.
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Muñoz-Fontela C, Mandinova A, Aaronson SA, Lee SW. Emerging roles of p53 and other tumour-suppressor genes in immune regulation. Nat Rev Immunol 2016; 16:741-750. [PMID: 27667712 DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 244] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Tumour-suppressor genes are indispensable for the maintenance of genomic integrity. Recently, several of these genes, including those encoding p53, PTEN, RB1 and ARF, have been implicated in immune responses and inflammatory diseases. In particular, the p53 tumour- suppressor pathway is involved in crucial aspects of tumour immunology and in homeostatic regulation of immune responses. Other studies have identified roles for p53 in various cellular processes, including metabolism and stem cell maintenance. Here, we discuss the emerging roles of p53 and other tumour-suppressor genes in tumour immunology, as well as in additional immunological settings, such as virus infection. This relatively unexplored area could yield important insights into the homeostatic control of immune cells in health and disease and facilitate the development of more effective immunotherapies. Consequently, tumour-suppressor genes are emerging as potential guardians of immune integrity.
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- César Muñoz-Fontela
- Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Martinistrasse 52, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Building 149 13th Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.,Harvard Stem Cell Institute, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029, USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Building 149 13th Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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Prevention is an essential component of cancer eradication. Next-generation sequencing of cancer genomes and epigenomes has defined large numbers of driver mutations and molecular subgroups, leading to therapeutic advances. By comparison, there is a relative paucity of such knowledge in premalignant neoplasia, which inherently limits the potential to develop precision prevention strategies. Studies on the interplay between germ-line and somatic events have elucidated genetic processes underlying premalignant progression and preventive targets. Emerging data hint at the immune system's ability to intercept premalignancy and prevent cancer. Genetically engineered mouse models have identified mechanisms by which genetic drivers and other somatic alterations recruit inflammatory cells and induce changes in normal cells to create and interact with the premalignant tumor microenvironment to promote oncogenesis and immune evasion. These studies are currently limited to only a few lesion types and patients. In this Perspective, we advocate a large-scale collaborative effort to systematically map the biology of premalignancy and the surrounding cellular response. By bringing together scientists from diverse disciplines (e.g., biochemistry, omics, and computational biology; microbiology, immunology, and medical genetics; engineering, imaging, and synthetic chemistry; and implementation science), we can drive a concerted effort focused on cancer vaccines to reprogram the immune response to prevent, detect, and reject premalignancy. Lynch syndrome, clonal hematopoiesis, and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia which also serve as models for inherited syndromes, blood, and viral premalignancies, are ideal scenarios in which to launch this initiative.
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