Nikolaos Spathas, Anna C Goussia, Georgia-Angeliki Koliou, Helen Gogas, Flora Zagouri, Anna Batistatou, Antonia V Charchanti, Alexandra Papoudou-Bai, Mattheos Bobos, Sofia Chrisafi, Kyriakos Chatzopoulos, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Triantafyllia Koletsa, Petroula Arapantoni, Dimitrios Pectasides, Eleni Galani, Angelos Koutras, George Zarkavelis, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dimitrios Bafaloukos, Charisios Karanikiotis, Iliada Bompolaki, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Amanda Psyrri, Evangelia Razis, Anna Koumarianou, Eleni Res, Helena Linardou, George Fountzilas
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) contribute to breast cancer (BC) prognosis. We investigated the prognostic impact of CD8+ TILs in patients with early breast cancer treated with adjuvant chemotherapy in a large observational clinical trial. Along with a 10 year follow-up, considering the efficacy and safety, we report the results of the translational part of our study. We examined the patients' tumors for total (t), stromal (s), and intratumoral (i) CD8 lymphocyte density (counts/mm2 ) on tissue-microarray cores...
November 16, 2022: Cancers