鼻咽癌患者微波热疗联合放疗前后T细胞亚群的变化及预后价值

Prognostic value of changes of peripheral blood T cell subsets after thermoradiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma]

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prognostic value of changes of peripheral blood T cell subsets after thermoradiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHODS: Peripheral blood T cell subsets in 20 normal subjects (control group), 30 NPC patients undergoing thermoradiotherapy, and 20 NPC patients undergoing radiotherapy were detected by flow cytometry. RESULTS: The percentages of CD3+CD4+ and CD8+CD28+ cells were decreased and the percentages of CD3+CD8+ and CD8+CD28- cells increased as compared with the measurements in normal persons. One month after thermoradiotherapy, the percentages of CD3+CD4+ and CD8+CD28+ cells further decreased and the percentages of CD3+CD8+ and CD8+CD28- cells further increased, which continued to worsen 3 months after the treatment and appeared to be related to the survival of the patients. CONCLUSION: T cell subsets of NPC patients are abnormal and their immune functions depressed in NPC patients within a long period after thermoradiotherapy. CD8+CD28+ and CD8+CD28- T cell subsets can be significant for prognostic assessment in these patients after thermoradiotherapy.