Zhixian Liu, Mengyuan Li, Zehang Jiang, Xiaosheng Wang
{"title":"A Comprehensive Immunologic Portrait of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer","authors":"Zhixian Liu, Mengyuan Li, Zehang Jiang, Xiaosheng Wang","doi":"10.1101/209288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/209288","url":null,"abstract":"Background Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a high-risk malignancy due to its high capacity for invasion and lack of targeted therapy. Immunotherapy continues to demonstrate efficacy in a variety of cancers, and thus may be a promising strategy for TNBC given the limited therapeutic options currently available for TNBC. In this study, we performed a comprehensive portrait of immunologic landscape of TNBC based on 2 large-scale breast cancer genomic data. Methods We compared expression levels of immune-related genes and gene-sets among TNBC, non-TNBC, and normal tissue, and within TNBCs of different genotypic or phenotypic features. Moreover, we explored the association of immune-related genes or gene-sets expression and survival prognosis in TNBC patients. Results We found that almost all analyzed immune-related gene-sets had significantly higher expression levels in TNBC than non-TNBC. These highly expressed gene-sets in TNBC included 15 immune cell type and function, human leukocyte antigen (HLA), cancer testis (CT), tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), immune cell infiltrate, regulatory T (Treg) cells, immune checkpoint, cytokine and cytokine receptor, metastasis-promoting, pro-inflammatory and parainflammation (PI) gene-sets. Moreover, TP53-mutated, TNBC had significantly higher expression levels of the immune checkpoint, Treg, PI, and CT gene-sets, and lower expression levels of the immune cell infiltrate gene-set than TP53-wildtype TNBC. Furthermore, we found that elevated expression of most of the immune-related genes in TNBC was associated with the ER-status, while some were associated with both ER-and HER2-status. Elevated expression of the immune-related genes in TNBC was also associated with the high tumor mutation burden (TMB) in TNBC. Finally, elevated expression of the immune-related gene-sets was likely to be associated with better survival prognosis in TNBC. Conclusions Our findings suggest that TNBC is a breast cancer subtype with particularly strong immunogenicity, and therefore could be propitious to immunotherapeutic options.","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"11 1","pages":"311 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48902319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Apps for Radiation Oncology. A Comprehensive Review1","authors":"J. Calero, L. Otón, C. Otón","doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2016.08.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"10 1","pages":"108 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.08.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stavros Kopsiaftis, P. Hegde, John A. Taylor, K. Claffey
{"title":"AMPKα Is Suppressed in Bladder Cancer through Macrophage-Mediated Mechanisms12","authors":"Stavros Kopsiaftis, P. Hegde, John A. Taylor, K. Claffey","doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2016.07.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.07.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"9 1","pages":"606 - 616"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.07.007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55287992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Surov, H. Meyer, M. Gawlitza, A. Höhn, A. Boehm, T. Kahn, P. Stumpp
{"title":"Correlations Between DCE MRI and Histopathological Parameters in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma1","authors":"A. Surov, H. Meyer, M. Gawlitza, A. Höhn, A. Boehm, T. Kahn, P. Stumpp","doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2016.10.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"10 1","pages":"17 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.10.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55289170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Ma, Maria A. Guarnera, Wenxian Zhou, Hongbin Fang, F. Jiang
{"title":"A Prediction Model Based on Biomarkers and Clinical Characteristics for Detection of Lung Cancer in Pulmonary Nodules12","authors":"Jie Ma, Maria A. Guarnera, Wenxian Zhou, Hongbin Fang, F. Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2016.11.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"10 1","pages":"40 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.11.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55289409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Q. Xu, Chong Wang, Xiaohong Yuan, Zhien Feng, Zhengxue Han
{"title":"Prognostic Value of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes for Patients With Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma12","authors":"Q. Xu, Chong Wang, Xiaohong Yuan, Zhien Feng, Zhengxue Han","doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2016.10.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"10 1","pages":"10 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.10.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55289294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activity of Pan-Class I Isoform PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor PF-05212384 in Combination with Crizotinib in Ovarian Cancer Xenografts and PDX1","authors":"A. Iezzi, E. Caiola, M. Broggini","doi":"10.1016/j.tranon.2016.08.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23244,"journal":{"name":"Translational Oncology","volume":"9 1","pages":"458 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tranon.2016.08.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55288231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}