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Heterogeneous Tumor-Immune Microenvironments among Differentially Growing Metastases in an Ovarian Cancer Patient.

ABSTRACT: We present an exceptional case of a patient with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, treated with multiple chemotherapy regimens, who exhibited regression of some metastatic lesions with concomitant progression of other lesions during a treatment-free period. Using immunogenomic approaches, we found that progressing metastases were characterized by immune cell exclusion, whereas regressing and stable metastases were infiltrated by CD8+ and CD4+ T cells and exhibited oligoclonal expansion of specific T cell subsets. We also detected CD8+ T cell reactivity against predicted neoepitopes after isolation of cells from a blood sample taken almost 3 years after the tumors were resected. These findings suggest that multiple distinct tumor immune microenvironments co-exist within a single individual and may explain in part the heterogeneous fates of metastatic lesions often observed in the clinic post-therapy. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Sanchez A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5589211 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Heterogeneous Tumor-Immune Microenvironments among Differentially Growing Metastases in an Ovarian Cancer Patient.

Jiménez-Sánchez Alejandro A Memon Danish D Pourpe Stephane S Veeraraghavan Harini H Li Yanyun Y Vargas Hebert Alberto HA Gill Michael B MB Park Kay J KJ Zivanovic Oliver O Konner Jason J Ricca Jacob J Zamarin Dmitriy D Walther Tyler T Aghajanian Carol C Wolchok Jedd D JD Sala Evis E Merghoub Taha T Snyder Alexandra A Miller Martin L ML

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We present an exceptional case of a patient with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, treated with multiple chemotherapy regimens, who exhibited regression of some metastatic lesions with concomitant progression of other lesions during a treatment-free period. Using immunogenomic approaches, we found that progressing metastases were characterized by immune cell exclusion, whereas regressing and stable metastases were infiltrated by CD8<sup>+</sup> and CD4<sup>+</sup> T cells and exhibited oligoclon ...[more]

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Heterogeneous Tumor-Immune Microenvironments among Differentially Growing Metastases in an Ovarian Cancer Patient.

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Heterogeneous Tumor-Immune Microenvironments among Differentially Growing Metastases in an Ovarian Cancer Patient.

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