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LUNG CANCER
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 69-75Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.04.021
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Lung cancer; PD-L1; EMT; Prognostic factor; Adenocarcinoma
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- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Chugai
- Pfizer
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Background: Programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) negatively regulates antigen receptor signaling upon binding by either of its ligands, programmed cell death ligand 1 or 2 (PD-L1/2). Blockade of this interaction with either PD-1 or PD-L1 antibodies has been successful in the treatment of human cancer, especially melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer. PD-L1 expression has been proposed as a predictor of tumor response. However, the relationships between PD-L1 expression and various clinicopathological characteristics remain unclear. Materials and methods: PD-L1 expression was examined in 220 non-small cell lung cancer specimens that were consecutively resected at our hospital after validating the E1L3N antibody immunohistochemical assay by comparing IHC and RT-PCR data for lung cancer cell lines. We evaluated the relationships between PD-L1 positivity, several clinical factors and the immunohistochemical expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), cancer stem cell and proliferative markers. Results: PD-L1 was expressed in 22% of lung adenocarcinomas and 60% of squamous cell lung cancers. There was no significant association between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological features in squamous cell lung cancer. However, in patients with lung adenocarcinoma, PD-L1 expression was significantly correlated with solid subtype histology, vimentin expression, increased Ki-67 labeling index and poor prognosis by multivariate analysis. Conclusion: PD-L1 expression was associated with high proliferative activity and the EMT phenotype in adenocarcinoma but not in squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. PD-L1 expression was a significant poor prognostic factor in patients with lung adenocarcinoma. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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