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Residual tumor micro-foci and overwhelming regulatory T lymphocyte infiltration are the causes of bladder cancer recurrence.
Parodi, Alessia; Traverso, Paolo; Kalli, Francesca et al.
2016In Oncotarget, 7 (6), p. 6424-6435
 

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Keywords :
Bladder Cancer; MAGE; TH17
Abstract :
[en] Bladder cancer has an unexplained, high recurrence rate. Causes of recurrence might include the presence of sporadic tumor micro-foci in the residual urothelial tissue after surgery associated with an inverted ratio between intratumoral effector and regulatory T cell subsets. Hence, surgical specimens of both tumors and autologous, macroscopically/histologically free-of-tumor tissues were collected from 28 and 20 patients affected by bladder or renal cancer, respectively. The frequencies of effector (IFNγ+ and IL17+ T cells) and regulatory (CD4+CD25hiCD127lo and CD8+CD28-CD127loCD39+ Treg) T cell subpopulations among tumor infiltrating lymphocytes were analyzed by immunofluorescence, while the gene expression of MAGE-A1 and MAGE-A2 tumor-associated antigens was studied by RT-PCR. The results show that both the T cell infiltrate and the frequency of MAGE-A1/A2 gene expression were comparable in tumors and in autologous free-of-tumor tissues in bladder cancer, while the autologous free-of-tumor renal tissues showed reduced T cell infiltrate and frequency of MAGE gene expression as compared to the autologous tumors. Importantly, the intra-tumor T effector/Treg cell ratio was consistently <1 in bladder cancer patients (n. 7) who relapsed within two years, while it was always >1 in patients (n. 6) without recurrence (regardless of tumor stage) (P = 0.0006, Odds ratio = 195). These unprecedented findings clarify the pathogenic mechanism of bladder cancer recurrence and suggest that microscopically undetectable micro-foci of tumor may predispose to recurrence when associated with an inverted intratumoral T effector/Treg cell ratio.
Research center :
CEBR-Centre of Excelence for biomedical research
Disciplines :
Oncology
Author, co-author :
Parodi, Alessia;  Université de Gênes > CEBR-Centre de excellence pour recherche Biomedical
Traverso, Paolo;  Université de Genes, Italie
Kalli, Francesca;  Université de Genes, Italie
Conteduca, Giuseppina ;  Université de Liège > GIGA-R : Hématologie
Language :
English
Title :
Residual tumor micro-foci and overwhelming regulatory T lymphocyte infiltration are the causes of bladder cancer recurrence.
Publication date :
February 2016
Journal title :
Oncotarget
eISSN :
1949-2553
Publisher :
Impact Journals, United States - New York
Volume :
7
Issue :
6
Pages :
6424-6435
Funders :
Mediolanum Farmaceutici spa
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