The evaluation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer: recommendations by an International TILs Working Group 2014.

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Published in Ann Oncol on September 11, 2014

Authors

R Salgado1, C Denkert2, S Demaria3, N Sirtaine4, F Klauschen2, G Pruneri5, S Wienert2, G Van den Eynden6, F L Baehner7, F Penault-Llorca8, E A Perez9, E A Thompson10, W F Symmans11, A L Richardson12, J Brock13, C Criscitiello14, H Bailey15, M Ignatiadis16, G Floris17, J Sparano18, Z Kos19, T Nielsen20, D L Rimm21, K H Allison22, J S Reis-Filho23, S Loibl24, C Sotiriou16, G Viale25, S Badve26, S Adams3, K Willard-Gallo27, S Loi28, International TILs Working Group 2014

Author Affiliations

1: Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory/Breast International Group, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels Department of Pathology and TCRU, GZA, Antwerp, Belgium.
2: Institute of Pathology, Charité -University Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
3: Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Medical School, New York, USA.
4: Department of Pathology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
5: European Institute of Oncology (IEO) and University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
6: Department of Pathology GZA, TCRU Hospitals and CORE Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium.
7: Genomic Health, Inc., Redwood City, USA University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
8: Clermont-Ferrand Biopathology, University of Auvergne, Jean Perrin Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
9: Division of Haematology/Medical Oncology and.
10: Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville.
11: Department of Pathology, The UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Boston.
12: Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
13: Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
14: Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy.
15: Genomic Health, Inc., Redwood City, USA.
16: Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.
17: Department of Pathology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
18: Department of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, USA.
19: Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto.
20: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
21: Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven.
22: Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Centre, Stanford.
23: Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
24: German Breast Group, Neu-Isenburg, Germany.
25: Department of Pathology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
26: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA.
27: Molecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
28: Division of Research and Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia sherene.loi@petermac.org.

Associated clinical trials:

Study of Immunotherapy in Combination With Chemotherapy in HER2-negative Inflammatory Breast Cancer (PELICAN) | NCT03515798

Phenotypic Characterization Tumor-infiltrating Lymphocytes at Diagnosis and After Chemotherapy in Ovarian Cancer (TILsOV-1805) | NCT03922776

Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Programmed Cell Death - Ligand 1 in Breast Cancer | NCT05250336

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