248 Word count, text (from the beginning of Introduction to the end of Discussion): 4,467 Reference count: 48 Table count: 3 Figure count: 3 Supplementary online material: 12 figures and 8 tables Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest: M.C.L., J.B., S.O., and J.A.N. are listed as co-inventors on a provisional application for a patent titled "System for and Method of Discovering Spatially-Derived Signatures of Tumor-Immune Cell Interactions through Tumor-Immune Partitioning and Clustering" regarding novel methods for characterizing immune cell distributions in solid tumors that has been filed through Partners Healthcare. J.L.G. is a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Codagenix, Array BioPharma, and Verseau Therapeutics; and receives research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly and Array BioPharma for the study of the breast tumor microenvironment. A.T.
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