Treatment with adjuvant radiotherapy modulates immune system in many diseases as witnessed by dynamic changes of humoral and cellular immunity. Moreover, the persistent lymphopenia after radiation therapy is a negative prognostic factor. This study is aimed to explore the changes in immune-cell populations during radiotherapy given as adjuvant treatment for high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas and to correlate them with patient's outcome.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
42
Eveluation: circulating T cells CD3+CD8+ and CD3+CD4+, absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) and neutrophil counts (ANC) and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), Treg lymphocytes, Naïve/Memory T lymphocytes CD4+ and CD8+,myeloid-derived suppressor cells, Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells NK cells dimension and bright, NKT cells, Myeloid Dendritic cells, Monocytes subsets, B lymphocytes ,Analysis of plasma cytokines (TNFalpha, TGFbeta, IL-6, IL-10) by ELISA,FN signature: real-time PCR on mRNA from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)
Disease-free survival (DFS) of patients with ALC < 500 cells/mL 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment
Disease-free survival (DFS) of patients with ALC \< 500 cells/mL 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment
Time frame: 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment
Evaluation of changes (Δ) in the circulating immune-cells population before the start of radiotherapy and 28 days after the end of radiotherapy
Evaluation of changes (Δ) in the circulating immune-cells population before the start of radiotherapy and 28 days after the end of radiotherapy. Correlation between DFS and circulating immune cell population
Time frame: Before and 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment
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