A smaller population of tumors showed isolated PD-L1 (25% overall; 16% of adenocarcinomas, 44% of adenosquamous carcinomas, and 33% of squamous cell carcinomas) or IDO-1 expression (15% overall; 14% of adenocarcinomas, 11% of adenosquamous carcinomas, and 17% of squamous cell carcinomas).
Utilizing the data of 513 patients with adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and 497 patients with squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort, we tested the prognostic value of POLE mutations and programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression in the two main subtypes of NSCLC.
Our results suggest the presence of EGFR wild-type, KRAS gene mutations or squamous cell carcinoma were associated with high PD-L1expression, which provides potential benefited population for the administration of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in human lung cancer.
To determine whether distinct tissue immune microenvironments differentially affect clinical outcome in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), an extended analysis of PD-L1 and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) was performed.<b>Experimental Design:</b> Samples from resected adenocarcinoma (ADC 42), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC 58), and 26 advanced diseases (13 ADC and 13 SCC) treated with nivolumab were analyzed.
Overall survival of PD-L1-positive stages I-III NSCLC and stage I NSCLC and stages I-III squamous cell carcinoma (SQ) were significantly shorter than those of PD-L1-negative NSCLC (p<0.01 and p=0.02 and p=0.01, respectively).
Consistently, there were fewer CD8<sup>+</sup> T-cells in PD-L1<sup>positive</sup>/HK2<sup>high</sup> tumors compared to PD-L1<sup>positive</sup>/HK2<sup>low</sup> tumors in squamous cell carcinoma.
Relative to those patients with HPV-positive/PD-L1-positive OPSCC, patients with HPV negative/PD-L1 negative OPSCC were 6.4 times more likely to develop a local recurrence, 5.8 times more likely to develop an event and 6.5 times more likely to die.
P16 and PD-L1 indicate radiosensitivity, whereas survivin and c-Met implicate radioresistance in primarily (chemo)irradiated head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.
Patients and Methods Eligible patients with squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction in whom standard therapy failed and who had PD-L1-positive tumors received pembrolizumab 10 mg/kg every 2 weeks for up to 2 years or until confirmed disease progression or intolerable toxicity.
To better understand the role of PD-L1 expression in vulvar cancer, we analyzed PD-L1 expression by immunohistochemistry in 55 well-characterized squamous cell carcinomas of vulva.PD-L1 was found in 72.7% of tumors.
Assessment of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunohistochemical staining is used for decision on treatment with programmed cell death 1 and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas.
The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation of PD-L1/PD-1 signalling with the prognosis of OSCC patients to assess its potential therapeutic relevance.
Our study found substantial inconsistencies for the percentages of cells staining positive for PD-L1 among different tissue microarray cores in many cases of both adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
Based on the existing information, we investigated the relationship between tumor immunity (including PD-L1) and <sup>18</sup>F-FDG uptake in patients with surgically resected pulmonary squamous-cell carcinoma (SQC).