[Correlation analysis of the prognosis of HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer patients with T cell infiltration and neoantigen load].

Oropharyngeal cancer is one type of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma that is commonly associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Its incidence is increasing year by year. However, in the clinical treatment, it is found that the overall prognosis of HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer patients is better than that of HPV negative patients. But till now, the underlying mechanism that leads to this phenomenon has not been fully elucidated. This research analyzed the immune cell infiltration and function, as well as neoantigen loads between HPV positive and negative patients by bioinformatic analysis using the TCGA database, and found that the overall survival rate of HPV positive patients was significantly higher than those in the HPV negative group. Analysis of the relative abundance of immune cells in tumor tissues showed that CD8 + T cells in HPV positive patients were significantly increased compared to those in HPV negative patients, and the expression levels of effector molecules, like IFN-γ and Granzyme B, were significantly upregulated. Meanwhile, the analysis of tumor neoantigen load (TNB) showed that the TNB of HPV positive patients was lower than that of the HPV negative group. This study provides some basic theoretical support for the treating HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer.

Prognostic value of VISTA in solid tumours: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

In the last few years, V-domain Ig-containing suppressor of T cell activation(VISTA) has been reported as a prognostic biomarker in articles including various solid tumours. However, their conclusions have been controversial. For this reason, we performed this meta-analysis to further verify the prognostic value of VISTA in solid tumours. All relevant literature was identified from PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library and Web of Science. Ten studies, including 2, 440 patients, were eligible for the analysis. The pooled results showed that high expression of VISTA was associated with favourable overall survival (OS) than that seen with low expression of VISTA (7 studies, hazard ratio (HR) = 0.75, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.66-0.86, P < 0.001). In addition, high expression of VISTA significantly correlated with high numbers of CD8 (+) tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) (3 studies, risk ratio (RR) = 1.80, 95% CI: 1.41-2.31, P < 0.001). In conclusion, these results indicate that VISTA is a potential prognostic biomarker in solid tumours.