Lieze Berben

Ms. Lieze Berben

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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12 April 2020 in Histopathology
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LBLieze Berben
Lieze Berben
HWHans Wildiers
Hans Wildiers
LMLukas Marcelis
Lukas Marcelis
AAAsier Antoranz
Asier Antoranz
FBFrancesca Bosisio
Francesca Bosisio
GFGiuseppe Floris
Giuseppe Floris

1 January 2020 in Clinical & Translational Immunology
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LBLieze Berben
Lieze Berben
GFGiuseppe Floris
Giuseppe Floris
CKCindy Kenis
Cindy Kenis
BDBruna Dalmasso
Bruna Dalmasso
ASAnn Smeets
Ann Smeets
SHSigrid Hatse
Sigrid Hatse
Objectives: Aging is associated with altered immune function and chronic low‐grade inflammation, referred to as immunosenescence. As breast cancer is an age‐related disease, the impact of aging on tumor immune responses may have important consequences. However, effects of immunosenescence on breast tumor immune infiltration remain largely unknown.Methods: This exploratory study investigated a broad panel of immune/senescence markers in peripheral blood and in the tumor microenvironment of young, middle‐aged and old patients diagnosed with early invasive luminal (hormone‐sensitive, HER2‐negative) breast cancer. In the old group, G8‐scores were computed as a correlate for clinical frailty.Results: Significant age‐related changes in plasma levels of several inflammatory mediators (IL‐1α, IP‐10, IL‐8, MCP‐1, CRP), immune checkpoint markers (Gal‐9, sCD25, TIM‐3, PD‐L1), IGF‐1 and circulating miRs (miR‐18a, miR‐19b, miR‐20, miR‐155, miR‐195 and miR‐326) were observed. Shifts were observed in distinct peripheral blood mononuclear cell populations, particularly naive CD8+ T‐cells. At the tumor level, aging was associated with lower total lymphocytic infiltration, together with decreased abundance of several immune cell markers, especially CD8. The relative fractions of cell subsets in the immune infiltrate were also altered. Clinical frailty was associated with higher frequencies of exhausted/senescent (CD27−CD28− and/or CD57+) terminally differentiated CD8+ cells in the blood and with increased tumor infiltration by FOXP3+ cells.Conclusion: Aging and frailty are associated with profound changes of the blood and tumor immune profile in luminal breast cancer, pointing to a different interplay between tumor cells, immune cells and inflammatory mediators at higher age.

1 June 2023 in Journal of Clinical Oncology
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YLYentl Lambrechts
Yentl Lambrechts
AAAsier Antoranz
Asier Antoranz
MSMaxim De Schepper
Maxim De Schepper
TGTatjana Geukens
Tatjana Geukens
HVHanne Vos
Hanne Vos
GFGiuseppe Floris
Giuseppe Floris