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Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells: Triggers for Tumor Capsule Disruption and Tumor Progression?

Bin Jiang1✉, Jeffrey Mason2, Anahid Jewett3, Min-ling Liu4, Wen Chen4, Jun Qian1, Yijiang Ding1, Shuqing Ding1, Min Ni1, Xichen Zhang5, Yan-gao Man5,6 ✉

1. National Medical Centre of Colorectal Disease, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Nanjing, China.
2. Laboratory of Proteomics and Protein Science, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
3. Tumor Immunology Laboratory, Division of Oral Biology and Medicine, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA. USA.
4. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
5. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
6. Diagnostic and Translational Research Center, Henry Jackson Foundation, MD, USA.

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Jiang B, Mason J, Jewett A, Liu Ml, Chen W, Qian J, Ding Y, Ding S, Ni M, Zhang X, Man Yg. Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells: Triggers for Tumor Capsule Disruption and Tumor Progression?. Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(5):475-497. doi:10.7150/ijms.5798. https://www.medsci.org/v10p0475.htm
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Abstract

Background: Our previous studies of human breast and prostate cancer have shown that aberrant immune cell infiltration is associated with focal tumor capsule disruption and tumor cell budding that facilitate invasion and metastasis. Our current study attempted to determine whether aberrant immune cell infiltration would have similar impact on colorectal cancer (CRC).

Materials and Methods: Tissue sections from 100 patients with primary CRC were assessed for the frequencies of focal basement membrane (BM) disruption, muscularis mucosa (MM) fragmentation, and tumor cell dissemination in epithelial structures adjacent and distal to infiltrating lymphoid aggregates using a panel of biomarkers and quantitative digital imaging.

Results: Our study revealed: (1) epithelial structures adjacent to lymphoid follicles or aggregates had a significantly higher (p<0.001) frequency of focally disrupted BM, dissociated epithelial cells in the stroma, disseminated epithelial cells within lymphatic ducts or blood vessels, and fragmented MM than their distal counterparts, (2) a majority of dissociated epithelial cells within the stroma or vascular structures were immediately subjacent to or physically associated with infiltrating immune cells, (3) the junctions of pre-invasive and invasive lesions were almost exclusively located at sites adjacent to lymphoid follicles or aggregates, (4) infiltrating immune cells were preferentially associated with epithelial capsules that show distinct degenerative alterations, and (5) infiltrating immune cells appeared to facilitate tumor stem cell proliferation, budding, and dissemination.

Conclusions: Aberrant immune cell infiltration may have the same destructive impact on the capsule of all epithelium-derived tumors. This, in turn, may selectively favor the proliferation of tumor stem or progenitor cells overlying these focal disruptions. These proliferating epithelial tumor cells subsequently disseminate from the focal disruption leading to tumor invasion and metastasis.

Keywords: Colorectal cancer, tumor capsule, tumor invasion, metastasis, lymphocyte aggregates.


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Jiang, B., Mason, J., Jewett, A., Liu, M.l., Chen, W., Qian, J., Ding, Y., Ding, S., Ni, M., Zhang, X., Man, Y.g. (2013). Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells: Triggers for Tumor Capsule Disruption and Tumor Progression?. International Journal of Medical Sciences, 10(5), 475-497. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijms.5798.

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Jiang, B.; Mason, J.; Jewett, A.; Liu, M.l.; Chen, W.; Qian, J.; Ding, Y.; Ding, S.; Ni, M.; Zhang, X.; Man, Y.g. Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells: Triggers for Tumor Capsule Disruption and Tumor Progression?. Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013, 10 (5), 475-497. DOI: 10.7150/ijms.5798.

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Jiang B, Mason J, Jewett A, Liu Ml, Chen W, Qian J, Ding Y, Ding S, Ni M, Zhang X, Man Yg. Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells: Triggers for Tumor Capsule Disruption and Tumor Progression?. Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(5):475-497. doi:10.7150/ijms.5798. https://www.medsci.org/v10p0475.htm

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Jiang B, Mason J, Jewett A, Liu Ml, Chen W, Qian J, Ding Y, Ding S, Ni M, Zhang X, Man Yg. 2013. Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells: Triggers for Tumor Capsule Disruption and Tumor Progression?. Int J Med Sci. 10(5):475-497.

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