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Changes in the CD8+ Density of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes after Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy in Patients with Rectal Adenocarcinom


Authors: D. Buka 1;  J. Dvořák 2;  V. Sitorová 3;  J. Hátlová 3;  I. Richter 4;  I. Sirák 1
Authors‘ workplace: Klinika onkologie a radioterapie LF UK a FN Hradec Králové 1;  Onkologická klinika 1. LF UK a Thomayerova nemocnice, Praha 2;  Fingerlandův ústav patologie, LF UK a FN Hradec Králové 3;  Oddělení klinické onkologie, Krajská nemocnice Liberec, a.  s. 4
Published in: Klin Onkol 2016; 29(3): 204-209
Category: Original Articles
doi: https://doi.org/10.14735/amko2016204

Overview

Background:
The goal of this study is to examine the effect of neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy on the density of CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in endoscopical biopsies and resection specimens from patients with rectal adenocarcinoma before and after therapy.

Patients and Methods:
In total, 53 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer were studied.

Results:
The median density of CD8+ TILs in pretreatment biopsies was 12 (1– 232) and that in surgical specimens after radiochemotherapy was 18 (1– 319). During radiochemotherapy, the density of CD8+ TILs increased in 30 patients (57%), decreased in 18 (34%), and did not change in one. It was not possible to assess the dynamics of CD8+ TILs density in four patients. The increased density of CD8+ TILs after radiochemotherapy was associated with a median survival rate 2.5 times longer than that associated with no increase in density.

Conclusion:
In the present study, the density of CD8+ TILs in endoscopical biopsies before radiochemotherapy, the density in resection specimens after radiochemotherapy, or in changes in the density after radiochemotherapy showed no predictive or prognostic significance. However, studying a larger number of patients may show that CD8+ TILs density is of predictive or prognostic significance.

Key words:
rectal adenocarcinoma –  preoperative treatment –  radiochemotherapy –  immunoscore –  CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes

This study was supported by project PRVOUK P37/01 and PRVOUK P37/11.

The authors declare they have no potential conflicts of interest concerning drugs, products, or services used in the study.

The Editorial Board declares that the manuscript met the ICMJE recommendation for biomedical papers.

Submitted:
5. 11. 2015

Accepted:
9. 1. 2016


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