Pierandrea Cancian, Nina Cortese, Matteo Donadon, Marco Di Maio, Cristiana Soldani, Federica Marchesi, Victor Savevski, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Luca Cerina, Maria Elena Laino, Guido Torzilli, Alberto Mantovani, Luigi Terracciano, Massimo Roncalli, Luca Di Tommaso
Quantitative analysis of Tumor Microenvironment (TME) provides prognostic and predictive information in several human cancers but, with few exceptions, it is not performed in daily clinical practice since it is extremely time-consuming. We recently showed that the morphology of Tumor Associated Macrophages (TAMs) correlates with outcome in patients with Colo-Rectal Liver Metastases (CLM). However, as for other TME components, recognizing and characterizing hundreds of TAMs in a single histopathological slide is unfeasible...
July 1, 2021: Cancers