Background: Since the application of Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), the clinical outcome for metastatic cancer has been greatly improved. Nevertheless, treatment response varies in patients, making it urgent to identify patients who will receive clinical benefits after ICI therapy. Adipose body composition has proved to be associated with tumor response. In this systematic review, we aimed to summarize the current evidence on imaging adipose biomarkers that predict clinical outcomes in patients treated with ICI in various cancer types.Methods: Embase and PubMed were searched from database inception to 1st February 2023. Articles included investigated the association between imaging-based adipose biomarkers and the clinical outcomes of patients treated with ICI. The methodological quality of included studies was evaluated through Newcastle- Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale and Radiomics Quality Score tools.Results: Totally, 22 studies including 2256 patients were selected. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) had the most articles (6 studies), followed by melanoma (5 studies), renal cell carcinoma (RCC) (3 studies), urothelial carcinoma (UC) (2 studies), head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) (1 study), gastric cancer (1 study) and liver cancer (1 study). The remaining 3 studies investigated metastatic solid tumors including various types of cancers. Adipose biomarkers can be summarized into 5 categories, including total fat, visceral fat, subcutaneous fat, intramuscular fat and others, which exerted diverse correlations with patients' prognosis after being treated with ICI in different cancers. Most biomarkers of body fat were positively associated with survival benefits. Nevertheless, more total fat was predictable of worse outcomes in NSCLC, while inter-muscular fat was associated with poor clinical benefits in UC.Conclusion: There is relatively well-supported evidence for imaging-based adipose biomarkers to predict the clinical outcome of ICI. In general, most of the studies show that adipose tissue is positively correlated with clinical outcomes. This review summarizes the significant biomarkers proven by researches for each cancer type. Further validation and large independent prospective cohorts are needed in the future. The protocol of this systematic review has been registered at the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO, registration no: CRD42023401986).
基金:
A Project Supported by Scientific Research Fund of Hunan
Provincial Education Department (21C0010).
第一作者机构:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Cent Hosp Wuhan, Tongji Med Coll, Dept Gastroenterol, Wuhan, Peoples R China
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通讯机构:[3]Sun Yat sen Univ, Canc Ctr, Dept Head & Neck Surg, Guangzhou, Peoples R China[4]Collaborat Innovat Ctr Canc Med, State Key Lab Oncol Southern China, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Pei Xinyu,Xie Ye,Liu Yixuan,et al.Imaging-based adipose biomarkers for predicting clinical outcomes of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review[J].FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY.2023,13:doi:10.3389/fonc.2023.1198723.
APA:
Pei, Xinyu,Xie, Ye,Liu, Yixuan,Cai, Xinyang,Hong, Lexuan...&Tang, Huancheng.(2023).Imaging-based adipose biomarkers for predicting clinical outcomes of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review.FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY,13,
MLA:
Pei, Xinyu,et al."Imaging-based adipose biomarkers for predicting clinical outcomes of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review".FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY 13.(2023)