High prevalence of activated intraepithelial cytotoxic T lymphocytes and increased neoplastic cell apoptosis in colorectal carcinomas with microsatellite instability

R Dolcetti, A Viel, C Doglioni, A Russo… - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
Microsatellite instability (MSI) characterizes colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) in hereditary
nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) syndrome and a proportion of sporadic CRCs …

Microsatellite instability and high content of activated cytotoxic lymphocytes identify colon cancer patients with a favorable prognosis

M Guidoboni, R Gafà, A Viel, C Doglioni… - The American journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancers with high-frequency microsatellite instability show peculiar
clinicopathological features and a favorable clinical outcome. We investigated whether the …

Histopathological identification of colon cancer with microsatellite instability

J Alexander, T Watanabe, TT Wu, A Rashid, S Li… - The American journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Cancer with high levels of microsatellite instability (MSI-H) is the hallmark of hereditary
nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome, and MSI-H occurs in∼ 15% of sporadic …

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes in colorectal cancer with microsatellite instability are activated and cytotoxic

SM Phillips, A Banerjea, R Feakins, SR Li… - Journal of British …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Background Patients with colorectal cancer that display high-level microsatellite instability
(MSI-H) appear to have a better prognosis. This may be explained by the pronounced T cell …

Characterization of an adaptive immune response in microsatellite-instable colorectal cancer

F Boissière-Michot, G Lazennec, H Frugier… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Sporadic or hereditary colorectal cancer (CRC) with microsatellite instability (MSI) is
frequently characterized by inflammatory lymphocytic infiltration and tends to be associated …

Phenotype of microsatellite unstable colorectal carcinomas: well-differentiated and focally mucinous tumors and the absence of dirty necrosis correlate with …

JK Greenson, JD Bonner, O Ben-Yzhak… - The American journal …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
The phenotypic markers of colorectal carcinomas with microsatellite instability have been
widely studied and include mucinous or poor differentiation, prominent host response, a …

Metastatic pattern of stage IV colorectal cancer with high-frequency microsatellite instability as a prognostic factor

K Fujiyoshi, G Yamamoto, T Takenoya… - Anticancer …, 2017 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background: A recent clinical trial on the immune check-point inhibitor pembrolizumab
demonstrated that microsatellite instability (MSI) is a good biomarker for response to this …

CD103+ intraepithelial lymphocytes—a unique population in microsatellite unstable sporadic colorectal cancer

E Quinn, N Hawkins, YL Yip, C Suter, R Ward - European Journal of Cancer, 2003 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability (MSI) typically show increased numbers of
intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) in comparison to microsatellite stable (MSS) cancers. The …

Pathologic predictors of microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer

JK Greenson, SC Huang, C Herron… - The American journal …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Identification of microsatellite unstable (MSI-H) colorectal cancers (CRCs) is important not
only for the identification of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome but also …

Microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer is associated with local lymphocyte infiltration and low frequency of distant metastases

A Buckowitz, HP Knaebel, A Benner, H Bläker… - British journal of …, 2005 - nature.com
Colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) share
clinicopathological features distinctly different from their microsatellite stable (MSS) …