Patterns of immune infiltration in gastric cancer and their clinical significance
Abstract Background: The malignant phenotypes of cancer are defined not only by its intrinsic tumor cells but also by the tumor- infiltrating immune cells (TIICs) activated and recruited to the cancer microenvironment. However, a comprehensive introduction of gastric cancer (GC) immune cell infiltration has not been identified so far.Reuslts: In this study, we comprehensively analyzed the TIICs abundance in GC for the first time by CIBERSORT. The fraction of TIICs subpopulations was also evaluated to determine the associations with clinical features and molecular subtypes. Unsupervised clustering analysis revealed there existed three distinct TIICs subgroups with distinct survival patterns. We also focused on analyzing the prognostic influence of TIICs in TP53, TTP and PIK3CA molecular subtypes.Conclusions: Collectively, our data explored the differences of TIICs in GC, and these variations were likely to be important clues for prognosis and management of its future clinical implementation.