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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 24.
Published in final edited form as: Immunity. 2018 Mar 20;48(3):434–452. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.03.014

Table 2. Potential Explanations for Discrepencies between Clinical Response to PD-1-PD-L1 Blocking Therapies and Intratumoral PDL1 Expression.

Clinical Response
PD-L1 expression Non responding Responding
PD-L1 negative false negative in assays role of PD-L1 outside of the tumor microenvironment dynamic nature of PD-L1 expression role of PD-L2
PD-L1 positive other suppressive mechanism(s) tumor insensitivity to T cells expression of PD-L1 not due to an ongoing immune response