000308514 001__ 308514 000308514 005__ 20260120152354.0 000308514 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1038/s41598-026-35720-1 000308514 0247_ $$2pmid$$apmid:41545625 000308514 037__ $$aDKFZ-2026-00154 000308514 041__ $$aEnglish 000308514 082__ $$a600 000308514 1001_ $$aSchneider, Felix$$b0 000308514 245__ $$aPrognostic impact of spatial niches in prostate cancer. 000308514 260__ $$a[London]$$bSpringer Nature$$c2026 000308514 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000308514 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000308514 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1768919024_2403417 000308514 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000308514 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000308514 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000308514 500__ $$a#NCTZFB9# / epub 000308514 520__ $$aThe formation of intratumoral spatial niches has been reported for many human malignancies. However, the translational potential of such spatial niches is understudied. Herein, we utilize digital spatial profiling (DSP) to explore the prognostic relevance of spatially defined protein expression in high-risk prostate cancer. A total of 49 patient samples were analyzed for the expression of 46 proteins in 463 regions of interest (ROIs) from the tumor center (n = 198) and the tumor periphery (n = 265) resulting in 21,298 primary data points (mean per patient n = 9.4). Expression data from either the tumor center or the tumor periphery were not found to be prognostic. Protein expression of tumor center and periphery was then integrated into single datapoints by calculating the log2-transformed relative expression between the two niches for each protein and patient. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of these data yielded two distinct patient subgroups. These clusters did not show a statistically significant correlation with known prognostic parameters yet significantly correlated with progression-free survival (p = 0.014, log-rank, HR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.22-0.86). Our results thus reveal that spatial protein expression contains prognostic information, however, only when expression data from both spatial niches are taken into account. 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