Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Neutrophils dominate the immune cell composition in non-small cell lung cancer

  • Julia Kargl,
  • Stephanie E. Busch,
  • Grace H. Y. Yang,
  • Kyoung-Hee Kim,
  • Mark L. Hanke,
  • Heather E. Metz,
  • Jesse J. Hubbard,
  • Sylvia M. Lee,
  • David K. Madtes,
  • Martin W. McIntosh,
  • A. McGarry Houghton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14381
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Tumour immune evasion can involve multiple strategies. Here, the authors characterize the immune populations from clinical specimens of lung cancer in conjunction with TCR-β sequencing and show abundant neutrophils affecting cytotoxic T-cell content and the frequent presence of tumour-specific T-cell clones.