The presence of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and the ratios between different subsets serve as prognostic factors in advanced hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Abstract Background Cancer cells induce the infiltration of various immune cells that are located or distributed in different sites and play multiple roles, which have recently been proposed to predict clinical outcomes. We therefore studied the prognostic significance of the presence of tumour-infi...

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Main Authors: Jie Wang, Shu Tian, Ji Sun, Jiahao Zhang, Lan Lin, Chunyan Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-020-07234-0