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The Immune Microenvironment in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Before and After Preoperative Chemotherapy.

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Purpose

Hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative (HR⁺/HER2^-) breast cancer is associated with low levels of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (sTIL) and PD-L1, and demonstrates poor responses to checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Evaluating the effect of standard chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment may suggest new opportunities for immunotherapy-based approaches to treating HR⁺/HER2^- breast tumors.

Experimental design

HR⁺/HER2^- breast tumors were analyzed before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. sTIL were assessed histologically; CD8⁺ cells, CD68⁺ cells, and PD-L1 staining were assessed immunohistochemically; whole transcriptome sequencing and panel RNA expression analysis (NanoString) were performed.

Results

Ninety-six patients were analyzed from two cohorts (n = 55, Dana-Farber cohort; n = 41, MD Anderson cohort). sTIL, CD8, and PD-L1 on tumor cells were higher in tumors with basal PAM50 intrinsic subtype. Higher levels of tissue-based lymphocyte (sTIL, CD8, PD-L1) and macrophage (CD68) markers, as well as gene expression markers of lymphocyte or macrophage phenotypes (NanoString or CIBERSORT), correlated with favorable response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, but not with improved distant metastasis-free survival in these cohorts or a large gene expression dataset (N = 302). In paired pre-/postchemotherapy samples, sTIL and CD8⁺ cells were significantly decreased after treatment, whereas expression analyses (NanoString) demonstrated significant increase of multiple myeloid signatures. Single gene expression implicated increased expression of immunosuppressive (M2-like) macrophage-specific genes after chemotherapy.

Conclusions

The immune microenvironment of HR⁺/HER2^- tumors differs according to tumor biology. This cohort of paired pre-/postchemotherapy samples suggests a critical role for immunosuppressive macrophage expansion in residual disease. The role of macrophages in chemoresistance should be explored, and further evaluation of macrophage-targeting therapy is warranted.

SUBMITTER: Waks AG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677598 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Immune Microenvironment in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Before and After Preoperative Chemotherapy.

Waks Adrienne G AG Stover Daniel G DG Guerriero Jennifer L JL Dillon Deborah D Barry William T WT Gjini Evisa E Hartl Christina C Lo Wesley W Savoie Jennifer J Brock Jane J Wesolowski Robert R Li Zaibo Z Damicis Adrienne A Philips Anne V AV Wu Yun Y Yang Fei F Sullivan Amy A Danaher Patrick P Brauer Heather Ann HA Osmani Wafa W Lipschitz Mikel M Hoadley Katherine A KA Goldberg Michael M Perou Charles M CM Rodig Scott S Winer Eric P EP Krop Ian E IE Mittendorf Elizabeth A EA Tolaney Sara M SM

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20190506 15

<h4>Purpose</h4>Hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative (HR<sup>+</sup>/HER2<sup>-</sup>) breast cancer is associated with low levels of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (sTIL) and PD-L1, and demonstrates poor responses to checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Evaluating the effect of standard chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment may suggest new opportunities for immunotherapy-based approaches to treating HR<sup>+</sup>/HER2<sup>-</sup> breast tumors.<h4>Experimental design</h4>HR<sup>+</su ...[more]

PMID: 31061067

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The Immune Microenvironment in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Before and After Preoperative Chemotherapy.

Purpose

Experimental design

Results

Conclusions

Publications

The Immune Microenvironment in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Before and After Preoperative Chemotherapy.

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