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MA05 - Improving Outcomes in Locoregional NSCLC II (ID 901)
- Event: WCLC 2018
- Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
- Track: Treatment of Locoregional Disease - NSCLC
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 9/24/2018, 13:30 - 15:00, Room 105
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MA05.03 - Immune Microenvironment and its Association with Adjuvant Chemotherapy Benefit in Locoregionally Advanced Lung Adenocarcinoma (ID 12999)
13:40 - 13:45 | Author(s): Rania G Aly
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Background
The impact of the tumor immune microenvironment on the effectiveness of platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) in locoregionally advanced (stage II-III) lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) is unknown. We performed an analysis of the cellular components of the tumoral and tumor-associated stromal immune environment in stage II-III lung ADC and examined their association with ACT benefit.
a9ded1e5ce5d75814730bb4caaf49419 Method
Tissue microarrays (6 tumor and 3 stromal cores from each tumor) were constructed using resected tissue from patients with pT2-T4N1 lung ADC (n=500, 2000-2012) who did (n=225) and did not (n=214) receive ACT. Multiplex immunofluorescence was used to determine the quantity, localization, and colocalization of 21 types of immune cells and markers (including PD-1, PD-L1, CD3, CD20, CD68, CD163, MPO, and PanCK). The association between immune cell infiltration and recurrence free probability (RFP) was compared using Kaplan-Meier methods, and benefit from ACT by unsupervised hierarchical cluster modeling.
4c3880bb027f159e801041b1021e88e8 Result
Overall, increased tumoral infiltration of CD20+ B-cells and CD3+ and CD4+ T-cells was associated with an improvement in 5-yr RFP (CD20+ low vs high: 37% vs 49%, p=.03; CD3+: 39% vs 48%, p=.003; and CD4+: 39% vs 47%, p=.02, respectively) whereas increased stromal MPO+ neutrophil infiltration was associated with a worse 5-yr RFP (low vs high: 50% vs 38%, p=.003). Among patients who received ACT, cluster modeling revealed 5 risk groups (Groups A-E; Figure) with immune signatures including tumoral B-cells and CD163+PD-1+ macrophages as well as stromal CD57+ NK-cells and CD163+PD-L1+ macrophages that provided a progressive stratification of RFP following adjuvant treatment.
8eea62084ca7e541d918e823422bd82e Conclusion
Immune infiltration analysis can predict benefit from ACT and thereby provide a rationale to select patients for either chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or combination therapy following surgical resection.
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MA12 - Mesothelioma Surgery and Novel Targets for Prognosis and Therapy (ID 913)
- Event: WCLC 2018
- Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
- Track: Mesothelioma
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 9/25/2018, 10:30 - 12:00, Room 202 BD
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MA12.07 - gC1qR Expression is Independently Prognostic for Survival Benefit Following Chemotherapy in Mesothelioma (ID 13284)
11:10 - 11:15 | Author(s): Rania G Aly
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Background
Overexpression of gC1qR, a multicompartmental and multifunctional cellular protein, has been shown to promote chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in cancer cells, but compromise CD4 T-cell proliferation in viral infections. The goal of this study was to investigate the overexpression of gC1qR, and its prognostic association with chemotherapy and CD4 T-cell infiltration in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).
a9ded1e5ce5d75814730bb4caaf49419 Method
Tissue microarrays comprising 6 tumoral and 3 stromal cores from 265 patients with MPM (216 epitheloid, 26 biphasic, and 23sarcomatoid, 1989-2010) were investigated by immunohistochemistry for gC1qR expression (intensity and distribution by H-score, range 0-300), and CD4 T-cell infiltration. Overall survival (OS) was analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method (high versus low gC1qR expression delineated by median score). Multi-variable analysis included clinical, pathological factors and stage (T, N).
4c3880bb027f159e801041b1021e88e8 Result
In comparison to benign and reactive mesothelial cells (median H-score 30), gC1qR is overexpressed (median H-score 155) in all histological types of MPMs (263/265, 99.2%). In epithelioid MPM patients – 1) among patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), high gC1qR was associated with better median OS (25 vs.11 months, Fig1A), 2) among patients without NAC, high gC1qR was associated with better survival, survival benefit is pronounced in patients who received postoperative chemotherapy (median OS 38 vs.19 months, Fig1B), and 3) in multivariate analysis, high gC1qR was an independent factor for better OS. gC1qR expression did not correlate with CD4 T cell infiltration. However, among patients without NAC, high CD4+ T cell infiltration-high gC1qR expression was associated with better OS (26 vs 18,12, and11 months, Fig1C).
8eea62084ca7e541d918e823422bd82e Conclusion
gC1qR is overexpressed on MPM cells. MPM patients with high gC1qR expression have a significant survival benefit particularly following chemotherapy; or in the presence of high CD4 T-cell infiltration.
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OA03 - Advances in Lung Cancer Pathology (ID 897)
- Event: WCLC 2018
- Type: Oral Abstract Session
- Track: Pathology
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 9/24/2018, 10:30 - 12:00, Room 205 BD
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OA03.07 - Three-Dimensional Immunofluorescence Analysis of Dynamic Vessel Co-Option of Spread Through Air Spaces (STAS) in Lung Cancer (ID 14318)
11:35 - 11:45 | Author(s): Rania G Aly
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Background
STAS was identified, by the 2015 WHO classification, as a new method of invasion in lung adenocarcinoma, with poor prognosis. Blood vessel co-option is a mechanism by which spreading intraalveolar tumor cells connect to the surrounding vasculature to survive. The aim of this study was to visualize the dynamic mechanism of blood vessel co-option using a high resolution and high-quality 3D reconstruction, and multiplex immunofluorescence (IF).
a9ded1e5ce5d75814730bb4caaf49419 Method
A 3D reconstruction image of a case of invasive lung adenocarcinoma with extensive STAS was performed on the formalin fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) block. 150 serial sections were obtained by the automated sectioning system AS410 (DNS. Ltd, Japan), and stained with H&E (100 slides), and multiplex IF (30 slides) for CD31, type IV collagen, TTF-1 and E-Cadherin to assess the relation between STAS and the surrounding lung parenchyma and vasculature. The IF stained sections were scanned with 0.33um/pixel by Panoramic P250 Flash (3D Histech Ltd, Hungary) Whole Slide Imaging Scanner (WSI). The WSIs were reconstructed into 3D exported to Imaris 8.0 (Bitplane, MA, US) for signal assessment.
4c3880bb027f159e801041b1021e88e8 Result
Serial 3D image analysis identifies the presence of STAS mainly in the form of micropapillary clusters. The multiplex IF staining highlighted the co-option which was determined by the spread and then attachment of STAS (TTF-1 and E-Cadherin positive) to distant alveolar wall capillaries (CD31 positive) with preservation of the alveolar wall (figure). This relation between STAS and the surrounding lung parenchyma was visualized in all serial sections of the whole FFPE block thickness.
8eea62084ca7e541d918e823422bd82e Conclusion
The survival of STAS, beyond the tumor edge, in lung adenocarcinoma is a viable mechanism for tumor recurrence. The combination of the high resolution and high-quality 3D reconstruction and multiplex immunofluorescence in our study, supports the concept that dynamic blood vessel co-option is a mechanism for STAS survival.
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