Artificial intelligence in histopathology: enhancing cancer research and clinical oncology

A Shmatko, N Ghaffari Laleh, M Gerstung, JN Kather - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have multiplied our capabilities to extract quantitative
information from digital histopathology images. AI is expected to reduce workload for human …

Tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer

TN Schumacher, DS Thommen - Science, 2022 - science.org
BACKGROUND Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are organized aggregates of immune
cells that form postnatally in nonlymphoid tissues. TLSs are not found under physiological …

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 …

Circulating tumor DNA analysis guiding adjuvant therapy in stage II colon cancer

J Tie, JD Cohen, K Lahouel, SN Lo… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer continues to be
debated. The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after surgery predicts very poor …

Hypoxia drives CD39-dependent suppressor function in exhausted T cells to limit antitumor immunity

PDA Vignali, K DePeaux, MLJ Watson, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical for elimination of cancer cells. Factors within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) can drive these cells to a hypofunctional state known as …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-resident FOLR2+ macrophages associate with CD8+ T cell infiltration in human breast cancer

RN Ramos, Y Missolo-Koussou, Y Gerber-Ferder… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Macrophage infiltration is a hallmark of solid cancers, and overall macrophage infiltration
correlates with lower patient survival and resistance to therapy. Tumor-associated …

Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

The inflammatory pathogenesis of colorectal cancer

M Schmitt, FR Greten - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The mutational landscape of colorectal cancer (CRC) does not enable predictions to be
made about the survival of patients or their response to therapy. Instead, studying the …

Tumor immune contexture is a determinant of anti-CD19 CAR T cell efficacy in large B cell lymphoma

N Scholler, R Perbost, FL Locke, MD Jain, S Turcan… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel) is an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell
therapy approved for relapsed/refractory large B cell lymphoma (LBCL) and has treatment …