The Immune Microenvironment in Gastric Cancer: Prognostic Prediction

Frontiers in Oncology

Weiming Kang²  Mingwei Ma²  Siwen Ouyang²  Juan Sun²  Zhen Liu²  Jie Li²  Ziyang Zeng²  Zimu Zhang² 

[1] Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China;Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China;

关键词: immune microenvironment;    gastric cancer;    prediction;    CAF;    TIL;    TAM;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fonc.2022.836389

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Although therapeutic methods have been developed, gastric cancer (GC) still leads to high rates of mortality and morbidity and is the fourth leading cause of cancer-associated death and the fifth most common cancer worldwide. To understand the factors associated with the prognostic prediction of GC and to discover efficient therapeutic targets, previous studies on tumour pathogenesis have mainly focused on the cancer cells themselves; in recent years, a large number of studies have shown that cancer invasion and metastasis are the results of coevolution between cancer cells and the microenvironment. It seems that studies on the tumour microenvironment could help in prognostic prediction and identify potential targets for treating GC. In this review, we mainly introduce the research progress for prognostic prediction and the immune microenvironment in GC in recent years, focusing on cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs), and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in GC, and discuss the possibility of new therapeutic targets for GC.

【 授权许可】

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