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. 2019 Sep 2;14:99. doi: 10.1186/s13000-019-0873-6

Table 2.

OPA, PPA, and NPA between PD-L1 assays

Clinical algorithm Comparator assay VENTANA SP263 (TC/IC 25%) assay used as reference, % agreement (95% CI) a
OPA PPA NPA

TC or ICICArea ≥ 25%

(VENTANA SP263)

PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx 92.2% (89.4%) 86.4% (80.1%) 95.4% (92.3%)
PD-L1 IHC 28–8 pharmDx 90.7% (87.7%) 79.7% (72.6%) 96.8% (94.0%)
VENTANA SP142 85.7% (82.1%) 64.4% (56.5%) 97.2% (94.6%)

CPS ≥1

(PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx)

PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx 77.0% (72.9%) 90.7% (85.0%) 69.6% (64.0%)

 CPS ≥10

(PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx)

PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx 81.5% (77.6%) 62.7% (54.8%) 91.7% (87.9%)

 TC ≥1%

(PD-L1 IHC 28–8 pharmDx)

PD-L1 IHC 28–8 pharmDx 75.5% (71.3%) 66.9% (59.1%) 80.2% (75.2%)

 ICTumorArea ≥ 5%

(VENTANA SP142)

VENTANA SP142 69.9% (65.5%) 15.3% (10.1%) 99.5% (97.8%)

a For each metric, lower boundary of 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated with no upper bound using the Clopper–Pearson method [37]

CPS combined positive score, IC immune cell, IHC immunohistochemistry, NPA negative percentage agreement, OPA overall percentage agreement, PD-L1 programmed cell death ligand-1, PPA positive percentage agreement, TC tumor cell