Publication date: November 2017
Source:European Journal of Cancer, Volume 86
Author(s): M.A.C. Versluis, S. Marchal, A. Plat, G.H. de Bock, T. van Hall, M. de Bruyn, H. Hollema, H.W. Nijman
BackgroundHuman Leucocyte Antigen- E (HLA-E) has been reported as both a positive and negative prognostic marker in cancer. This apparent discrepancy may be due to opposing actions of HLA-E on tumour-infiltrating immune cells. Therefore, we evaluated HLA-E expression and survival in relation to the presence of intratumoural natural killer (NK) cells and cytotoxic T cells (CTLs).MethodsTissue microarrays (TMAs) of endometrial tumours were used for immunohistochemical staining of parameters of interest. The combined impact of clinical, pathological and immune parameters on survival was analysed using log rank testing and Cox regression analyses.ResultsUpregulation of HLA-E was associated with an improved disease-free and disease-specific survival in univariate analysis (HR 0.58 95% CI 0.37–0.89; HR 0.42 95% CI 0.25–0.73, respectively). In multivariate analysis, the presence of NK cells predicts survival with a hazard ratio (HR) 0.28 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.09–0.91) when HLA-E expression is upregulated; but it is associated with a worse prognosis when HLA-E expression is normal (HR 13.43, 95% CI 1.70–106.14). By contrast, the prognostic benefit of T cells was not modulated by HLA-E expression.ConclusionsTaken together, we demonstrate that the prognostic benefit of NK cells, but not T-cells, is influenced by HLA-E expression in endometrial cancer (EC) and propose a model to explain our observations.
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