PD-L1 expression, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, and mismatch repair proteins status in digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms: exploring their potential role as theragnostic and prognostic biomarkers.
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serval:BIB_783A4E0BFABA
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
PD-L1 expression, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, and mismatch repair proteins status in digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms: exploring their potential role as theragnostic and prognostic biomarkers.
Journal
Virchows Archiv
ISSN
1432-2307 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0945-6317
Publication state
Published
Issued date
11/2024
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
485
Number
5
Pages
841-851
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Theragnostic biomarkers are still needed to select patients with digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) for an optimal management. The PD-1/PD-L1 pathway plays a pivotal role in T cells activation and host immune response to cancer and PD-L1 expression in tumor and/or immune cells is used to identify patients who would benefit of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. However, its role as a biomarker is still unclear in digestive NENs. We investigated PD-L1 expression in 68 well-characterized digestive NENs (32 NETs, 32 NECs and 4 MiNENs) and TPS and CPS scores were calculated. In addition, tumor infiltrating T-lymphocytes and mismatch repair protein expression (MMR) were evaluated. All results were correlated with clinicopathological features. PD-L1 expression was higher in NECs than in NETs: TPS > 1% and/or CPS > 1 were observed in 16% of NETs, 68.8% of NECs and 50% of MiNENs (p: 0.05). The mean TPS score in positive cases was 6.3% in NETs, 16.2% in NECs and 5% in MiNENs. The CPS score was 4.8 in NETs, 8.1 in NECs and 6 in MiNENs. MMR-deficient neoplasms were more frequently observed in NECs than in NETs (p: < 0.05) as well as intra-tumor immune infiltration (p: 0.00001). No correlation between PD-L1 expression and survival or other clinicopathological parameters was observed. Our results suggest that treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors may have a potential role only in selected cases, mainly in NECs and MiNENs.
Keywords
Humans, B7-H1 Antigen/metabolism, Female, Male, Middle Aged, Biomarkers, Tumor/analysis, Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating/immunology, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating/pathology, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating/metabolism, Neuroendocrine Tumors/pathology, Neuroendocrine Tumors/metabolism, Neuroendocrine Tumors/immunology, Aged, Adult, DNA Mismatch Repair, Prognosis, Digestive System Neoplasms/pathology, Digestive System Neoplasms/immunology, Digestive System Neoplasms/metabolism, Aged, 80 and over, Immunohistochemistry, Digestive system, neuroendocrine tumors, neuroendocrine carcinomas., Mismatch repair protein, Neuroendocrine neoplasm, PD-L1, Tumor immune infiltration
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