Highplex FL
Quantify expression of an unlimited number of biomarkers in any cellular compartment – membrane, nucleus or cytoplasm.
Immuno-Oncology
Spatial Analysis
Plot cells and objects from one or more images and perform nearest neighbor analysis, proximity analysis, and tumor infiltration analysis.
Tissue Classifier Add-on
Separate multiple tissue classes across a tissue using a learn-by-example approach. Can be used in conjunction with all other modules (fluorescent and brightfield) to select specific tissue classes for further analysis.
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Multiplex IHC
Quantify expression of up to five brightfield stains in any cellular compartment – membrane, nucleus or cytoplasm.
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy leads to pathological responses in MMR-proficient and MMR-deficient early-stage colon cancers
Myriam Chalabi, et al, Nature Medicine, 2020.
Immunotherapy is known to be effective in late-stage, mismatch repair (MMR) deficient colorectal cancers but not in MMR proficient cancer. This study reports the early results from the NICHE clinical trial that is evaluating treatment of early stage, nonmetastatic preoperative colon cancer with a CTLA-4 inhibitor and a PD-1 inhibitor. Chalabi and colleagues report that the treatment was well tolerated and that a major pathological response was seen in 19/20 patients with MMR deficient tumors and 3/15 MMR proficient tumors. HALO image analysis software was used in this publication for analysis of T-cell biomarkers CD3, CD8, and FOXP3 on chromogenically stained tumor biopsies. First, image registration with HALO was performed of three serial tissue sections. Tissue sections were annotated manually, and quantification of DAB positivity was performed with the Multiplex IHC module and expressed as a function of tumor area. The authors conclude that immunotherapy shows promise to become the standard of care in a defined group of early-stage colon cancers.
Intratumoral interleukin-12 mRNA therapy promotes TH1 transformation of the tumor microenvironment
Susannah L Hewitt, et al, Clinical Cancer Research, 2020.
In patients with advanced stage lung disease, it is beneficial to evaluate candidacy for immunotherapy without invasive biopsy testing. Lou et al performed a concordance study to evaluate formalin fixed cell blocks compared to lung tumor resections using a PD-L1 22C3 IHC pharmDx™ assay and found strong concordance between pathologists and HALO image analysis software. Future research will focus on clinical validation by assessing the clinical benefit from immunotherapy following PD-L1 immunohistochemistry on cytology specimens.