Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

In vivo tumor immune microenvironment phenotypes correlate with inflammation and vasculature to predict immunotherapy response

  • Aditi Sahu,
  • Kivanc Kose,
  • Lukas Kraehenbuehl,
  • Candice Byers,
  • Aliya Holland,
  • Teguru Tembo,
  • Anthony Santella,
  • Anabel Alfonso,
  • Madison Li,
  • Miguel Cordova,
  • Melissa Gill,
  • Christi Fox,
  • Salvador Gonzalez,
  • Piyush Kumar,
  • Amber Weiching Wang,
  • Nicholas Kurtansky,
  • Pratik Chandrani,
  • Shen Yin,
  • Paras Mehta,
  • Cristian Navarrete-Dechent,
  • Gary Peterson,
  • Kimeil King,
  • Stephen Dusza,
  • Ning Yang,
  • Shuaitong Liu,
  • William Phillips,
  • Pascale Guitera,
  • Anthony Rossi,
  • Allan Halpern,
  • Liang Deng,
  • Melissa Pulitzer,
  • Ashfaq Marghoob,
  • Chih-Shan Jason Chen,
  • Taha Merghoub,
  • Milind Rajadhyaksha

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32738-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Standard assessment of immune infiltration of biopsies is not sufficient to accurately predict response to immunotherapy. Here, the authors show that reflectance confocal microscopy can be used to quantify dynamic vasculature and inflammatory features to better predict treatment response in skin cancers.