Revisiting the immune microenvironment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using a tissue microarray and immunohistochemistry: robust semi-automated analysis reveals CD3 and FoxP3 as potential predictors of response to R-CHOP
| Autor: | Abigail M. Lee, Donna Neuberg, Emanuele Mazzola, Maria Calaminici, Andrew Clear, Rute Alvarez, Maria Gomes da Silva, Paul Greaves, Andrew Owen, Janet Matthews, Rita Coutinho, José Cabeçadas, Andrew Wilson, John G. Gribben |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty CD3 Complex Concordance Gene Expression Recursive partitioning Antibodies Monoclonal Murine-Derived International Prognostic Index Chemoimmunotherapy Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols medicine Tumor Microenvironment Humans Cyclophosphamide Survival analysis Automation Laboratory Tissue microarray business.industry Gene Expression Profiling Forkhead Transcription Factors Hematology Articles medicine.disease Prognosis Immunohistochemistry Survival Analysis Gene expression profiling Doxorubicin Tissue Array Analysis Vincristine Multivariate Analysis Prednisone Lymphoma Large B-Cell Diffuse business Rituximab Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Algorithms |
| Popis: | Gene expression studies have identified the microenvironment as a prognostic player in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. However, there is a lack of simple immune biomarkers that can be applied in the clinical setting and could be helpful in stratifying patients. Immunohistochemistry has been used for this purpose but the results are inconsistent. We decided to reinvestigate the immune microenvironment and its impact using immunohistochemistry, with two systems of image analysis, in a large set of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Diagnostic tissue from 309 patients was arrayed onto tissue microarrays. Results from 161 chemoimmunotherapy-treated patients were used for outcome prediction. Positive cells, percentage stained area and numbers of pixels/area were quantified and results were compared with the purpose of inferring consistency between the two semi-automated systems. Measurement cutpoints were assessed using a recursive partitioning algorithm classifying results according to survival. Kaplan-Meier estimators and Fisher exact tests were evaluated to check for significant differences between measurement classes, and for dependence between pairs of measurements, respectively. Results were validated by multivariate analysis incorporating the International Prognostic Index. The concordance between the two systems of image analysis was surprisingly high, supporting their applicability for immunohistochemistry studies. Patients with a high density of CD3 and FoxP3 by both methods had a better outcome. Automated analysis should be the preferred method for immunohistochemistry studies. Following the use of two methods of semi-automated analysis we suggest that CD3 and FoxP3 play a role in predicting response to chemoimmunotherapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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