Immune suppression in the tumor-draining lymph node corresponds with distant disease recurrence in patients with melanoma

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Inflammation Research Center, Ghent, Belgium.
• ³ Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Surgical Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Pathology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁵ Tumor Immuno-Pathology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: j.aerts@erasmusmc.nl.
• ⁷ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.