Prognostic Significance of Interleukin-8 and CD163-Positive Cell-Infiltration in Tumor Tissues in Patients with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Yohei Fujita, Masato Okamoto, Hiroyuki Goda, Tomoyuki Tano, Koh-ichi Nakashiro, Atsuro Sugita, Tomonobu Fujita, Shigeo Koido, Sadamu Homma, Yutaka Kawakami and Hiroyuki Hamakawa

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: Purpose: We investigated whether serum interleukin (IL)-8 reflects the tumor microenvironment and has prognostic value in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Experimental Design: Fifty OSCC patients who received radical resection of their tumor(s) were enrolled. Preoperative sera were measured for IL-8 by ELISA. Expression of IL-8 and the infiltration of immune cells in tumor tissues were analyzed by an immunohistochemical staining of surgical specimens. Results: We found that disease-free survival (DFS) was significantly longer in the Stage I/II OSCC patients with low serum IL-8 levels compared to those with high levels (p = 0.001). The tumor expression of IL-8, i.e., IL-8(T) and the density of CD163-positive cells in the tumor invasive front, i.e., CD163(IF) were correlated with the serum IL-8 level (p = 0.033 and p = 0.038, respectively), and they were associated with poor clinical outcome (p = 0.007 and p = 0.002, respectively, in DFS) in all patients. A multivariate analysis revealed that N status, IL-8(T) and CD163(IF) significantly affected the DFS of the patients. Further analysis suggested that combination of N status with serum IL-8, IL-8(T) or CD163(IF) may be a new criterion for discriminating between OSCC patients at high and low risk for tumor relapse. Interestingly, the in vitro experiments demonstrated that IL-8 enhanced generation of CD163-positive M2 macrophages from peripheral blood monocytes, and that the cells produced IL-10. Conclusions: These findings indicate that IL-8 may be involved in poor clinical outcomes via generation of CD163-positive M2 macrophages, and that these factors in addition to N status may have prognostic value in patients with resectable OSCSS.

Date: 2014
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