Abstract 1364
Background
Monitoring the host immune response to tumors in the cancer microenvironment helps predict treatment response and outcome. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), which are indicators for monitoring an immune response, are generally mononuclear immunocytes that aggregate with tumors and are thought to have a close relationship with cancer cells. On the other hand, a fibrotic focus (FF) within the stroma of a tumor is a histological formation that plays an important role in the cancer microenvironment with regard to proliferation and development. Here, we focus on TILs that exist within the FF and we have performed pathological evaluations. Among patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for breast cancer, we evaluated the prediction of treatment effects using FF-TILs.
Methods
Of the 320 patients were treated with NAC, 239 subjects who were able to evaluate FF-TILs were targeted. The FF is a converged focus of the tissue component of the stroma of a tumor, and it is surrounded by infiltrating tumor cells. Lymphocytes that infiltrate the FF are FF-TILs.
Results
The disease-free survival (DFS) period after NAC for the high-FF-TIL group was found to be significantly longer than that for the low-FF-TIL group for all cases (p
Conclusions
It is suggested that FF-TILs are a useful factor for predicting recurrence of breast cancer after NAC.
Clinical trial identification
Legal entity responsible for the study
Shinichiro Kashiwagi
Funding
None
Disclosure
All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.