Figure 2.
Prognostic impact of immune infiltrate in tumor microenvironment of primary and metastatic tissue of high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). (A) Representative images of lysosomal-associated membrane protein (DC-LAMP), CD20, CD8, and natural killer (NK) p46 immunostaining in primary tumor microenvironment (P-TME) and metastatic tumor microenvironment (M-TME) samples from study group 1. Scale bar=50 µm. (B) Density of DC-LAMP+, CD20+, CD8+ cells, and NKp46+ cells in paired 80 P-TME versus 80 M-TME samples from study group 1, as determined by immunostaining. Box plots: lower quartile, median, upper quartile; whiskers, minimum, maximum. (C and D) Overall survival (OS) of 80 patients from study group 1 on stratification based on median density of DC-LAMP+ cells, CD20+ cells, CD8+ cells, and NKp46+ cells in the P-TME (C) and M-TME (D). Survival curves were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method, and differences between groups were evaluated using log-rank test. Number of patients at risk and p values are reported. ns, not significant.