Analysis of Prostate Cancer Tumor Microenvironment Identifies Reduced Stromal CD4 Effector T-cell Infiltration in Tumors with Pelvic Nodal Metastasis.

Background: Pelvic nodal metastasis in prostate cancer impacts patient outcome negatively.

Objective: To explore tumor-infiltrating immune cells as a potential predictive tool for regional lymph node (LN) metastasis.

Design Setting And Participants: We applied multiplex immunofluorescence and targeted transcriptomic analysis on 94 radical prostatectomy specimens in patients with (LN+) or without (LN-) pelvic nodal metastases.