Table 2.
Clinicopathologic and histologic characteristics and the expression of VISTA and PD-L1 by immunohistochemistry in MPM TMA cohort
| Overall n = 319 |
Epithelioid n = 254 |
Biphasic n = 41 |
Sarcomatoid n = 24 |
p-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISTA raw score, median (range) | 50 (0 to 100) | 50 (0 to 100) | 20 (0 to 95) | 0 (0 to 50) | <0.001 |
| PD-L1 raw score, median (range) | 0 (0 to 95) | 0 (0 to 95) | 0 (0 to 95) | 20 (0 to 95) | <0.001 |
| Age, median (range) | 64 (29 to 85) | 63 (29 to 85) | 66 (41 to 79) | 66 (46 to 78) | 0.016 |
| Female, n (%) | 82 (25.7) | 72 (28.3) | 5 (12.2) | 5 (20.8) | 0.073 |
| Stage, n (%) | |||||
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.023 |
| 2 | 75 | 67 | 4 | 4 | |
| 3 | 187 | 147 | 27 | 13 | |
| 4 | 47 | 30 | 10 | 7 |
p-values compare rows among the three histology groups
MPM malignant pleural mesothelioma, n number, PD-L1 programmed cell death-ligand 1, TMA tissue microarray, VISTA V-domain Ig suppressor of T-cell activation