Advances in Radiomics of the Tumor Microenvironment 
in Metastatic Lymph Nodes

Xiaofei Xu; Jianfeng Yang*

doi:10.70711/pmr.v2i3.5477

Advances in Radiomics of the Tumor Microenvironment in Metastatic Lymph Nodes

Xiaofei Xu, Jianfeng Yang*

Abstract

As one of the main ways of tumor metastasis, the presence or absence of lymph node metastasis is of great significance to the choice
of treatment and prognosis of tumor patients. With significant advances in immunotherapy, assessing the tumor microenvironment in metastatic lymph nodes and predicting the efficacy of lymph node immunotherapy has become a hot research topic. In this review, we summarize the
recent radiomics studies in assessing the tumor microenvironment of metastatic lymph nodes and predicting the efficacy of immunotherapy.
We also discuss the role of metastatic lymph node stromal cells in antitumor immunity.

Keywords

Radiomics; Tumor microenvironment; Metastatic lymph nodes; Immunotherapy; Stromal cells

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