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