Systematic pan-cancer analysis reveals immune cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment

FS Varn, Y Wang, DW Mullins, S Fiering, C Cheng - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
With the recent advent of immunotherapy, there is a critical need to understand immune cell
interactions in the tumor microenvironment in both pan-cancer and tissue-specific contexts …

A pan-cancer landscape of interactions between solid tumors and infiltrating immune cell populations

D Tamborero, C Rubio-Perez, F Muiños… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: Throughout their development, tumors are challenged by the immune system, and
they acquire features to evade its surveillance. A systematic view of these traits, which shed …

Heterogeneity of the tumor immune microenvironment and its clinical relevance

Q Jia, A Wang, Y Yuan, B Zhu, H Long - Experimental hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
During the course of tumorigenesis and subsequent metastasis, malignant cells gradually
diversify and become more heterogeneous. Consequently, the tumor mass might be …

The tumor immune microenvironmental analysis of 2,033 transcriptomes across 7 cancer types

S Kim, A Kim, JY Shin, JS Seo - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the tumor microenvironment is important to efficiently identify appropriate
patients for immunotherapies in a variety of cancers. Here, we presented the tumor …

Cancer-induced heterogeneous immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments and their personalized modulation

T Yaguchi, Y Kawakami - International immunology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Although recent cancer immunotherapy strategies, including immune-checkpoint blockade
(ie blocking PD-1, PD-L1 or CTLA-4), have shown durable clinical effects in some (but not …

Discovering dominant tumor immune archetypes in a pan-cancer census

AJ Combes, B Samad, J Tsui, NW Chew, P Yan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cancers display significant heterogeneity with respect to tissue of origin, driver mutations,
and other features of the surrounding tissue. It is likely that individual tumors engage …

An immune score reflecting pro-and anti-tumoural balance of tumour microenvironment has major prognostic impact and predicts immunotherapy response in solid …

A Mezheyeuski, M Backman, J Mattsson… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Cancer immunity is based on the interaction of a multitude of cells in the spatial
context of the tumour tissue. Clinically relevant immune signatures are therefore anticipated …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies genetic correlates of immune infiltrates in solid tumors

NO Siemers, JL Holloway, H Chang, SD Chasalow… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Therapeutic options for the treatment of an increasing variety of cancers have been
expanded by the introduction of a new class of drugs, commonly referred to as checkpoint …

The immune landscape of cancer

V Thorsson, DL Gibbs, SD Brown, D Wolf, DS Bortone… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
We performed an extensive immunogenomic analysis of more than 10,000 tumors
comprising 33 diverse cancer types by utilizing data compiled by TCGA. Across cancer …

Conservation of immune gene signatures in solid tumors and prognostic implications

J Chifman, A Pullikuth, JW Chou, D Bedognetti… - BMC cancer, 2016 - Springer
Background Tumor-infiltrating leukocytes can either limit cancer growth or facilitate its
spread. Diagnostic strategies that comprehensively assess the functional complexity of …