• Medicina · Jul 2022

    Intratumoral Budding in Pretreatment Biopsies, among Tumor Microenvironmental Components, Can Predict Prognosis and Neoadjuvant Therapy Response in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma.

    • Kwangil Yim, Won Mo Jang, Uiju Cho, Der Sheng Sun, Yosep Chong, and Kyung Jin Seo.
    • Department of Hospital Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea.
    • Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Jul 12; 58 (7).

    AbstractBackground and Objectives: The prediction of the prognosis and effect of neoadjuvant therapy is vital for patients with advanced or unresectable colorectal carcinoma (CRC). Materials and Methods: We investigated several tumor microenvironment factors, such as intratumoral budding (ITB), desmoplastic reaction (DR), and Klintrup-Mäkinen (KM) inflammation grade, and the tumor-stroma ratio (TSR) in pretreatment biopsy samples (PBSs) collected from patients with advanced or unresectable CRC. A total of 85 patients with 74 rectal carcinomas and 11 colon cancers treated at our hospital were enrolled; 66 patients had curative surgery and 19 patients received palliative treatment. Results: High-grade ITB was associated with recurrence (p = 0.002), death (p = 0.034), and cancer-specific death (p = 0.034). Immature DR was associated with a higher grade of clinical tumor-node-metastasis stage (cTNM) (p = 0.045), cN category (p = 0.045), and cM category (p = 0.046). The KM grade and TSR were not related to any clinicopathological factors. High-grade ITB had a significant relationship with tumor regression in patients who received curative surgery (p = 0.049). Conclusions: High-grade ITB in PBSs is a potential unfavorable prognostic factor for patients with advanced CRC. Immature DR, TSR, and KM grade could not predict prognosis or therapy response in PBSs.

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