Department of Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Northwestern University, 303 E. Superior St. #3-115, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
BMC Cancer. 2024 Oct 30;24(1):1336. doi: 10.1186/s12885-024-13061-4.
PURPOSE: Targeted therapy development in soft tissue sarcoma (STS) has been burdened by the heterogeneity of this group of rare tumors. B7 homolog 3 protein (B7-H3) is a molecule in the same family as programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1). It has limited expression in noncancerous tissues and is overexpressed in many cancers, making it an attractive target for cancer therapy, and clinical trials targeting B7-H3 are actively underway. While available data demonstrate high expression levels of B7-H3 in individual sarcoma subtypes, its expression patterns across STS subtypes are not well described. The purpose of this study was to characterize the expression patterns of B7-H3 in STS. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective analysis evaluated STS tumor specimens from patients with a variety of different subtypes. Specimens were evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) for expression and staining pattern of B7-H3 both in tumors and in associated vasculature. RESULTS: Specimens from 153 sarcoma patients included 15 different STS subtypes. B7-H3 was broadly expressed in 97% of samples (95% CI 0.93-0.99) and 69.2% demonstrated high levels of B7-H3 expression (95% CI 0.61-0.76). No significant association between B7-H3 positivity or expression level and prior treatment(s), tumor size, tumor grade, or patient age. B7-H3 positivity in vessels was found in 94.7% (145/153) of samples. In tumors that had been previously assessed for PD-L1 and PD-1, there was no correlation between B7-H3 positivity or expression and the positivity or expression level of PD-L1 or PD-1. CONCLUSION: These data show high levels of B7-H3 positivity across soft tissue sarcoma subtypes, suggesting its feasibility as a therapeutic target for future sarcoma treatments. Future clinical trials are needed to evaluate whether targeting B7-H3 can provide clinical benefit to help patients with sarcoma.
目的:软组织肉瘤(STS)的靶向治疗发展一直受到这类罕见肿瘤异质性的困扰。B7 同源物 3 蛋白(B7-H3)是与程序性死亡配体 1(PD-L1)同一家族的分子。它在正常组织中的表达有限,而在许多癌症中过度表达,使其成为癌症治疗的一个有吸引力的靶点,针对 B7-H3 的临床试验正在积极进行。虽然现有数据表明 B7-H3 在个别肉瘤亚型中表达水平较高,但 STS 亚型之间的表达模式尚未得到很好的描述。本研究旨在描述 B7-H3 在 STS 中的表达模式。
患者和方法:这项回顾性分析评估了来自具有各种不同亚型 STS 患者的肿瘤标本。通过免疫组织化学(IHC)评估 B7-H3 在肿瘤和相关血管中的表达和染色模式。
结果:153 名肉瘤患者的标本包括 15 种不同的 STS 亚型。B7-H3 在 97%的样本中广泛表达(95%置信区间 0.93-0.99),69.2%的样本显示高水平的 B7-H3 表达(95%置信区间 0.61-0.76)。B7-H3 阳性或表达水平与既往治疗、肿瘤大小、肿瘤分级或患者年龄之间无显著相关性。在 153 例样本中,94.7%(145/153)的样本中发现血管中存在 B7-H3 阳性。在先前评估 PD-L1 和 PD-1 的肿瘤中,B7-H3 阳性或表达与 PD-L1 或 PD-1 的阳性或表达水平之间没有相关性。
结论:这些数据表明,B7-H3 在软组织肉瘤亚型中呈高阳性表达,表明其作为未来肉瘤治疗的治疗靶点具有可行性。需要进一步的临床试验来评估针对 B7-H3 是否能为肉瘤患者带来临床获益。
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