Tumor immune microenvironment could predict prognosis

A team led by researchers from the Cancer Research Institute, Institute for Systems Biology and Sage Bionetworks have identified six immune subtypes of tumors that they said could encompass nearly all human malignancies and delineate immune patterns that predict clinical outcomes.

The paper, published in Immunity, is one of 29 published in Cell journals this week as part of the Pan-Cancer Atlas Initiative. The genomic analysis studies used data from NCI’s The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)...