RT - European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology ID - 10.12892/ejgo23872014 T1 - An evaluation of immune system cell infiltrate in the cervical stroma of patients with grade III cervical intraepithelial neoplasia after treatment with intralesional alpha-2B interferon A1 - F.A. Machado A1 - D.R. Abdalla A1 - L. Montes A1 - R.M. Etchebehere A1 - M.A. Michelin A1 - E.F.C. Murta K1 - Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Immunotherapy; Immune response. YR - 2014 SP - 20 AB -
The aim of this study was to characterize infiltrating immune cells in cervical stroma biopsy samples from patients diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CINs) who were treated with IFN- α 2b. The authors studied 13 volunteers who were diagnosed with Cervical intraepithelial neoplasiaCIN II or III and who received intra-lesional treatment with IFN-α 2b. They collected pre- and post- treatment biopsies from each patient. They also examined the slides under a common optical microscope with a X400 lens for biopsy sample sections that were labeled with immunohistochemistry for T lymphocyte, B lymphocyte, natural killer cell, macrophage, iNOS, and perforin markers. The presence of immune response cells in the lesion was observed after treatment with intralesional IFN-α 2b in patients with CIN II/III changes, a reduction in CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocyte infiltration in the women who responded well to treatment. However, there was a significant increase in these markers in samples from women who did not respond to treatment. Nonetheless, immunotherapy with IFN-α 2b administered intralesionally in patients with CIN II/III yields favorable results in patients who do not smoke.