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Author Spotlight: Unveiling the Role of TMOD3 in Platinum Resistance and Immune Infiltration in Ovarian Cancer
Published on: August 2, 2024
Tumour immune cell infiltration and survival after platinum-based chemotherapy in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Rong Liu1, Rong Hu2, Ying Zeng1
1Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 87 Xiangya Road, Changsha 410008, PR China; Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Central South University, Hunan Key Laboratory of Pharmacogenetics, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha 410078, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Applied Technology of Pharmacogenomics, Ministry of Education, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha 410078, PR China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, 87 Xiangya Road, Changsha 410008, Hunan, PR China.
Background:
Increasing evidence supports that the immune infiltration of tumours is associated with prognosis. Here, we sought to assess the relevance of the cellular composition of the immune infiltrate to survival after platinum-based chemotherapy amongst patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer and evaluate these effects by molecular subtype.
Methods:
We searched publicly available databases and identified 13 studies with more than 2000 patients. We estimated the proportions of 22 immune cell subsets by using a computational approach (CIBERSORT). Then, we investigated the associations between each immune cell subset and progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), with cellular proportions modelled as quartiles.
Findings:
A high fraction of M1 [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.92, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.86-0.99] and M0 (HR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.87-0.99) macrophages emerged as the most closely associated with favourable OS. Neutrophils were associated with poor OS (HR = 1.06, 95% CI = 1.00-1.13) and PFS (HR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.02-1.13). Amongst the immunoreactive tumours, the M0 macrophages and the CD8+ T cells were associated with improved OS, whereas the M2 macrophages conferred worse OS. Interestingly, PD-1 was associated with good OS (HR=0.89, 95% CI = 0.80-1.00) and PFS (HR=0.89, 95% CI = 0.79-1.01) in this subtype. Four subgroups of tumours with distinct survival patterns were identified using immune cell proportions with unsupervised clustering.
Interpretation:
Further investigations of the quantitative cellular immune infiltrations in tumours may contribute to therapeutic advances.
