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Cell Oncol (Dordr). 2021 Aug;44(4):793-803. doi: 10.1007/s13402-021-00601-4. Epub 2021 Apr 17.

Prognostic role of proliferating CD8.

Cellular oncology (Dordrecht)

Niclas C Blessin, Wenchao Li, Tim Mandelkow, Hannah L Jansen, Cheng Yang, Jonas B Raedler, Ronald Simon, Franziska Büscheck, David Dum, Andreas M Luebke, Andrea Hinsch, Katharina Möller, Anne Menz, Christian Bernreuther, Patrick Lebok, Till Clauditz, Guido Sauter, Andreas Marx, Ria Uhlig, Waldemar Wilczak, Sarah Minner, Till Krech, Christoph Fraune, Doris Höflmayer, Eike Burandt, Stefan Steurer

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Pathology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, D-20246, Hamburg, Germany.
  2. College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
  3. Institute of Pathology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, D-20246, Hamburg, Germany. [email protected].
  4. Institute of Pathology, Medical Centre Fürth, D-90766, Fürth, Germany.

PMID: 33864611 PMCID: PMC8338812 DOI: 10.1007/s13402-021-00601-4

Abstract

PURPOSE: Expansion of CD8

METHODS: To understand the CD8

RESULTS: The density and the percentage of proliferating (Ki67

CONCLUSION: Our data demonstrate a tumor type dependent prognostic impact of proliferating (Ki67

© 2021. The Author(s).

Keywords: Breast cancer; CD8+ cytotoxic Tcells; Colorectal cancer; Gastric cancer; Ovarian cancer; Pancreatic cancer; Renal cell cancer; Tumor microenvironment

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