Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of tumor immune microenvironment between primary tumor and brain metastases in NSCLC
Jin-Sheng Liu,
Yu-Xiang Cai,
Yong-Ze He
et al.
Abstract:Background
Brain metastasis is a common outcome in non-small cell lung cancer, and despite aggressive treatment, its clinical outcome is still frustrating. In recent years, immunotherapy has been developing rapidly, however, its therapeutic outcomes for primary lung cancer and brain metastases are not the same, suggesting that there may be differences in the immune microenvironment of primary lung cancer and brain metastases, however, we currently know little about these differences.
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