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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Immunol Res. 2013 Jul;1:10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-13-0034. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-13-0034

Table 2B.

Correlation of PD-L1 expression by tumor cells with PD-L1 expression by adjacent immune infiltrates in 67 MCC specimens

Tumor site n Tumor PD-L1(−), n (%)
Tumor PD-L1+, n (%)a
p-valueb
TIL PD-L1(−) TIL PD-L1+a TIL PD-L1(−) TIL PD-L1+
Primary 29 12 (75) 4 (25) 0 (0) 13 (100) < 0.001
Metastasis 38 21 (95) 1 (5) 0 (0) 16 (100) < 0.001
All 67 33 (87) 5 (13) 0 (0) 29 (100) < 0.001
a

Tumor cells or associated infiltrating immune cells were considered PD-L1+ if ≥5% of cells had membranous (cell surface) PD-L1 expression.

b

Fisher's exact test