Thursday 24 October 2019

Associations between absolute neutrophil count and lymphocyte-predominant breast cancer



by Chang Ik Yoon, Soeun Park, Yoon Jin Cha, Hye Sun Lee, Soong June Bae, Chihwan Cha, Da Young Lee, Sung Gwe Ahn, Joon Jeong

The Breast, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2019.09.013

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) might be associated with host-cell mediated immunity, which could be partly reflected by peripheral blood cell counts. In addition, lymphocyte-predominant breast cancer (LPBC), which was defined as tumors having high TIL levels, showed a favorable prognosis among triple-negative breast cancer or HER2-positive breast cancer. We aimed to investigate whether peripheral blood cell counts are associated with LPBC.