B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures as determinants of tumour immune contexture and clinical outcome

WH Fridman, M Meylan, F Petitprez, CM Sun… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
B cells are a major component of the tumour microenvironment, where they are
predominantly associated with tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS). In germinal centres within …

Tumour-infiltrating B cells: immunological mechanisms, clinical impact and therapeutic opportunities

CM Laumont, AC Banville, M Gilardi, DP Hollern… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Although immunotherapy research to date has focused largely on T cells, there is mounting
evidence that tumour-infiltrating B cells and plasma cells (collectively referred to as tumour …

[HTML][HTML] Tertiary lymphoid structures generate and propagate anti-tumor antibody-producing plasma cells in renal cell cancer

M Meylan, F Petitprez, E Becht, A Bougoüin, G Pupier… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The presence of intratumoral tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) is associated with positive
clinical outcomes and responses to immunotherapy in cancer. Here, we used spatial …

Multistain deep learning for prediction of prognosis and therapy response in colorectal cancer

S Foersch, C Glasner, AC Woerl, M Eckstein… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although it has long been known that the immune cell composition has a strong prognostic
and predictive value in colorectal cancer (CRC), scoring systems such as the immunoscore …

Mature tertiary lymphoid structures predict immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy in solid tumors independently of PD-L1 expression

L Vanhersecke, M Brunet, JP Guégan, C Rey… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Only a minority of patients derive long-term clinical benefit from anti-programmed cell death
protein 1 (anti-PD-1) or anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1) monoclonal …

[HTML][HTML] Tertiary lymphoid structures and B cells: An intratumoral immunity cycle

WH Fridman, M Meylan, G Pupier, A Calvez… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The generation of anti-tumor immunity in the draining lymph nodes is known as the cancer
immunity cycle. Accumulating evidence supports the occurrence of such a cycle at tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Dual effect of immune cells within tumour microenvironment: pro-and anti-tumour effects and their triggers

AC Peña-Romero, E Orenes-Piñero - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The relationship between the immune system and tumours is currently one
of the most studied topics in the field of cancer. Previously, it was thought that a tumour could …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell-blood cell crosstalk: Biology and clinical relevance

T Pereira-Veiga, S Schneegans, K Pantel, H Wikman - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are the seeds of distant metastasis, and the number of CTCs
detected in the blood of cancer patients is associated with a worse prognosis. CTCs face …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the immune checkpoint inhibitors in the context of cancer treatment

NA Alturki - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
Checkpoint proteins are an integral part of the immune system and are used by the tumor
cells to evade immune response, which helps them grow uncontrollably. By blocking these …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship between tumor infiltrating immune cells and tumor metastasis and its prognostic value in cancer

HX Li, SQ Wang, ZX Lian, SL Deng, K Yu - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tumor metastasis is an important reason for the difficulty of tumor treatment. Besides the
tumor cells themselves, the tumor microenvironment plays an important role in the process …