Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Tertiary lymphoid structures critical for prognosis in endometrial cancer patients

  • Nanda Horeweg,
  • Hagma H. Workel,
  • Dominik Loiero,
  • David N. Church,
  • Lisa Vermij,
  • Alicia Léon-Castillo,
  • Ricki T. Krog,
  • Stephanie M. de Boer,
  • Remi A. Nout,
  • Melanie E. Powell,
  • Linda R. Mileshkin,
  • Helen MacKay,
  • Alexandra Leary,
  • Naveena Singh,
  • Ina M. Jürgenliemk-Schulz,
  • Vincent T. H. B. M. Smit,
  • Carien L. Creutzberg,
  • Viktor H. Koelzer,
  • Hans W. Nijman,
  • Tjalling Bosse,
  • Marco de Bruyn,
  • TransPORTEC consortium

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29040-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) are associated with a reduced risk of cancer recurrence and improved response to immune checkpoint blockade in several tumor types. Here the authors identify L1CAM as a marker for mature TLS and show that the presence of TLS is associated with favorable prognosis in patients with endometrial cancer from the PORTEC-3 trial.