Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Spatial immunophenotypes predict response to anti-PD1 treatment and capture distinct paths of T cell evasion in triple negative breast cancer

  • Dora Hammerl,
  • John W. M. Martens,
  • Mieke Timmermans,
  • Marcel Smid,
  • Anita M. Trapman-Jansen,
  • Renée Foekens,
  • Olga I. Isaeva,
  • Leonie Voorwerk,
  • Hayri E. Balcioglu,
  • Rebecca Wijers,
  • Iris Nederlof,
  • Roberto Salgado,
  • Hugo Horlings,
  • Marleen Kok,
  • Reno Debets

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25962-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Only a subset of triple negative breast cancer patients respond to immunotherapy. Here, the authors analysed spatial immune contextures, which can be captured by a gene classifier, in relation to genomic alterations, mechanisms of T cell evasion and response to anti-PD1 treatment.