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. 2021 Sep 1;38(5):287–295. doi: 10.5152/balkanmedj.2021.20086

Table 5.

Patient Pathologic Characteristics in Relation to PD-L1 Expression

Characteristic Tumor Cell PD-L1 Expression >1% Tumor Cell PD-L1 Expression <1% P Tumor-Infiltrating
Immune Cell PD-L1
Expression >10%
Tumor-Infiltrating
Immune Cell PD-L1
Expression <10%
P
Sex
 Male 49.7% (80) 50.3% (81) .673 27.3% (44) 72.7% (117) .241
 Female 53.2% (25) 46.8% (22) 36.2% (17) 63.8% (30)
Histology
 Adenocarcinoma 48.3% (70) 51.7% (75) .207 29.7% (43) 70.3% (102) .807
 Squamous Cell Carcinoma 64.1% (25) 35.9% (14) 33.3% (13) 66.7% (26)
 NSCLC-NOS and Other 41.6% (10) 58.3% (14) 20.8% (5) 79.2% (19)
Molecular Signature
 EGFR mutation 44.4% (4) 55.6% (5) .964 33.3% (3) 66.7% (6) .680
 ALK rearrangement 63.6% (7) 36.3% (4) .363 18.2% (2) 81.8% (9) .385
 ROS1 rearrangement 50% (1) 50% (1) .966 0% (0) 100% (2) .376

EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; ALK, anaplastic lymphoma tyrosine kinase gene; ROS1, proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase 1 ROS; PD-L1, programmed cell death protein ligand-1; NSCLC-NOS, non-small lung cancer-not otherwise specified.