Landscape of the intratumroal microenvironment in bladder cancer : Implications for prognosis and immunotherapy

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Introduction: This study aims to present the landscape of the intratumoral microenvironment and by which establish a classification system that can be used to predict the prognosis of bladder cancer patients and their response to anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy.

Methods: The expression profiles of 1554 bladder cancer cases were downloaded from seven public datasets. Single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA), univariate Cox regression analysis, and meta-analysis were employed to establish the bladder cancer immune prognostic index (BCIPI). Extensive analyses were executed to investigate the association between BCIPI and overall survival, tumor-infiltrated immunocytes, immunotherapeutic response, mutation load, etc.

Results: The results obtained from seven independent cohorts and meta-analyses suggested that the BCIPI is an effective classification system for estimating bladder cancer patients' overall survival. Patients in the BCIPI-High subgroup revealed different immunophenotypic outcomes from those in the BCIPI-Low subgroup regarding tumor-infiltrated immunocytes and mutated genes. Subsequent analysis suggested that patients in the BCIPI-High subgroup were more sensitive to anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy than those in the BCIPI-Low subgroup.

Conclusions: The newly established BCIPI is a valuable tool for predicting overall survival outcomes and immunotherapeutic responses in patients with bladder cancer.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Computational and structural biotechnology journal - 21(2023) vom: 01., Seite 74-85

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bian, Zichen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Chang [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Qintao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Jialin [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Chaozhao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer
Anti-PD-L1, Antitumor response to atezolizumab
BCG, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
BCIPI, Bladder cancer immune prognostic index
Bladder cancer
CNVs, Copy number variations
FDA, Food and Drug Administration
FPKM, Fragments per kilobase per million
Genomic
ICI, Immune checkpoint inhibitor
IHC, Immunohistochemistry
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
MES, Mesenchymal transition
NES, Normalized enrichment score
Overall survival
RMA, Robust multiarray average
RMS, Restricted mean survival
SsGSEA, Single-sample GSEA
TPM, Transcripts per kilobase million

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Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.csbj.2022.11.052

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350263418