title: Study of the relationship between immunohistologically demonstrated lymphocytes infiltrating human breast carcinomas and patients' survival.
abstract: Eighty-five breast carcinomas were immunostained for CD3-, CD4-, CD8-, CD16-, CD22-, CD38- and CD57-positive lymphocyte subpopulations. The results were related to follow-up data (median follow-up 46 months) of 74 patients regarding overall survival and 73 patients in respect to disease-free survival. Whereas the number of axillary lymph node metastases (P less than 0.01) and the hormone receptor status (P less than 0.01) resulted in significantly different survival curves for overall survival, not one of the lymphocyte subset infiltrats correlated significantly which overall survival. For disease-free survival, pT stage (P less than 0.01) and nodal (P less than 0.01) and hormone receptor status (P less than 0.05) proved to be prognostically important. However, disease-free survival was not influenced by the infiltration of any lymphocyte subset.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Immunobiology, University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: H O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Wintzer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bohle
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: von Kleist
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000945:Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte / Q000032:analysis; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality*; D017252:CD3 Complex; D015704:CD4 Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D016827:CD8 Antigens; D006801:Humans; D016246:Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating / Q000276:immunology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000032:analysis; D016019:Survival Analysis
chemical_list: D000945:Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte; D017252:CD3 Complex; D015704:CD4 Antigens; D016827:CD8 Antigens; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell