The aim of this study was to investigate the potential association and combined prognostic significance of the frequency of primary cilia (PC), programmed cell death protein-1 receptor (PD1) and CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in patients with clear cell renal cancer (ccRCC).
The frequency of PC, PD1 expression and the frequency of intratumoral CD8+ TIL were evaluated in 104 ccRCC patients.
The median frequency of PC was 0.003. The expression of PD1+ cells were <5% in 52 patients, 5-25% in 34 patients and 26-50% in 13 patients and >50% in 5 patients. Intratumoral CD8+ TIL were evaluable in all patients: negative in 1 patient, <25% in 63, 26-50% in 29 and >50% in 11 patients. Overall survival (OS) according to the frequency of PC was significantly shorter in patients with higher frequency (≥0.002) than in patients with lower frequency (<0.002) (p<0.001). Median OS was significantly shorter in patients with higher (25%) CD8+ TIL and higher (>25%) PD1+ expression than in patients with lower (<25%) expression (4.6 vs. 97. years, p=0.006 and 2.9 vs. 8.9 years, p=0.006, respectively).
The present study provides the first data on the potential association and combined prognostic significance of frequency of PC, PD1+ cells and CD8+ TIL in patients with clear cell renal cancer.
Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology. 0000 Jan [Epub]
Aneta Rozsypalova, Blanka Rosova, Alzbeta Filipova, Dimitar Hadzi Nikolov, Renata Chloupkova, Igor Richter, Jan Proks, Roman Zachoval, Radoslav Matej, Bohuslav Melichar, Tomas Buchler, Josef Dvorak
1Department of Oncology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University and Thomayer Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.