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ID 114897
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Fujimoto, Yukie Hyogo College of Medicine
Inoue, Natsuko Hyogo College of Medicine
Morimoto, Koji Osaka Ryokuryo High School|Osaka National Hospital|RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research
Watanabe, Takahiro Hyogo College of Medicine
Hirota, Seiichi Hyogo College of Medicine
Imamura, Michiko Hyogo College of Medicine
Okamura, Haruki Hyogo College of Medicine
Miyoshi, Yasuo Hyogo College of Medicine
Keywords
breast cancer
CCL5
cytokine
immunity
prognosis
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Journal Article
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Analysis of anticancer immunity aids in assessing the prognosis of patients with breast cancer. From 250 operated breast cancers, we focused on serum levels of C-C motif chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5), which is involved in cancer immune reactions. Serum levels of CCL5 were measured using a cytometric bead-based immunoassay kit and CCL5 expression in cancer cells was determined using immunohistochemical staining. In addition, mRNA in cancer and stromal cells was analyzed by microdissection and comparison with the public dataset. Disease-free survival (DFS) of patients with high CCL5 levels (cut-off, 13.87 ng/mL; n = 192) was significantly better than those with low CCL5 levels (n = 58; hazard ratio, 0.20; 95% confidence interval, 0.10- 0.39; P < .0001). An improved overall survival was observed in patients with high CCL5 levels compared to those with low CCL5 levels (P = .024). On the contrary, high immunohistochemical expression of CCL5 in cancer cells was significantly associated with decreased DFS. As serum CCL5 levels did not correlate with CCL5 expression in cancer cells and the relative expression of mRNA CCL5 was elevated in stromal cells in relation to cancer cells, serum CCL5 might be derived not from cancer cells, but from stromal cells. Expression of CCL5 in serum, but not in cancer cells, might contribute to improved patient prognosis mediating through not only immune reaction, but through other mechanisms. Determination of circulating CCL5 levels could be useful for predicting patient prognosis.
Journal Title
Cancer Science
ISSN
13497006
Publisher
Japanese Cancer Association|John Wiley & Sons
Volume
111
Issue
1
Start Page
209
End Page
218
Published Date
2019-11-14
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences