Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Spatial computation of intratumoral T cells correlates with survival of patients with pancreatic cancer

  • Julienne L. Carstens,
  • Pedro Correa de Sampaio,
  • Dalu Yang,
  • Souptik Barua,
  • Huamin Wang,
  • Arvind Rao,
  • James P. Allison,
  • Valerie S. LeBleu,
  • Raghu Kalluri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15095
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The functional significance of T-cell infiltration in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in relation to desmoplastic stroma is unclear. Here the authors develop a method to spatially resolve tumour stroma composition and find that spatial T-cell infiltration correlates with patient prognosis regardless of desmoplasia.