Clinicopathologic implications of immune classification by PD-L1 expression and CD8-positive tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in stage II and III gastric cancer patients.

ABSTRACT: We co-assessed PD-L1 expression and CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in gastric cancer (GC), and categorized into 4 microenvironment immune types. Immunohistochemistry (PD-L1, CD8, Foxp3, E-cadherin, and p53), PD-L1 mRNA in situ hybridization (ISH), microsatellite instability (MSI), and EBV ISH were performed in 392 stage II/III GCs treated with curative surgery and fluoropyrimidine-based adjuvant chemotherapy, and two public genome databases were analyzed for validation. PD-L1+ was found in 98/392 GCs (25.0%). The proportions of immune types are as follows: PD-L1+/CD8High, 22.7%; PD-L1-/CD8Low, 22.7%; PD-L1+/CD8Low, 2.3%; PD-L1-/CD8High, 52.3%. PD-L1+/CD8High type accounted for majority of EBV+ and MSI-high (MSI-H) GCs (92.0% and 66.7%, respectively), and genome analysis from public da

SUBMITTER: Koh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5432263 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature