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. 2021 Sep 16;13(18):4659. doi: 10.3390/cancers13184659

Table 2.

Correlation of PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS) with tumor mutation burden (TMB) according to primary tumor.

PD-L1 CPS * Total (n = 413) Gastric Cancer (n = 126) Biliary Tract Cancer (n = 73)
Negative
(n = 105)
Low
(n = 265)
High
(n = 43)
p-value Negative
(n = 41)
Low
(n = 82)
High
(n=2)
p-value Negative
(n = 15)
Low
(n = 44)
High
(n = 14)
p-value
TMB < 10 100 (95.2%) 230 (86.8%) 33
(76.6%)
0.005 40 (97.6%) 73 (89.0%) 1
(33.3%)
0.001 14 (93.3%) 37 (84.1%) 8
(57.1%)
0.032
TMB ≥ 10 5
(4.8%)
35
(13.2%)
10
(23.3%)
1
(2.4%)
9
(11.0%)
2
(66.7%)
1
(6.7%)
7
(15.9%)
6
(42.9%)
PD-L1 CPS ** Total (n = 413) Gastric Cancer (n = 126) Biliary Tract Cancer (n = 73)
Negative
(n = 107)
Positive
(n = 306)
p-value Negative
(n = 41)
Positive
(n = 85)
p-value Negative (n = 16) Positive (n = 57) p-value
TMB < 10 101
(94.4%)
262
(85.6%)
0.017 40
(97.6%)
74
(87.1%)
0.060 15
(93.8%)
44
(77.2%)
0.137
TMB ≥ 10 6
(5.6%)
44
(14.4%)
1
(2.4%)
11
(12.9%)
1
(6.2%)
13
(22.8%)

* Negative: PD-L1 expression < 1, Low: 1 ≤ PD-L1 expression < 50, High: 50 ≤ PD-L1 expression ** Negative: PD-L1 expression < 1, Positive: 1 ≤ PD-L1 expression.