Expression of programmed cell death-ligand 1 and its correlation with clinical outcomes in gliomas.
2016
// Jing Zeng 1,2 , Xin-Ke Zhang 1,2 , Hua-Dong Chen 3 , Zhi-Hai Zhong 3 , Qiu-Liang Wu 1,2 , Su-Xia Lin 1,2 1 State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China 2 Department of Pathology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China 3 Department of
Pediatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Correspondence to: Su-Xia Lin, email: // Keywords :
PD-L1, prognosis, DFS, OS, gliomas Received : September 01, 2015 Accepted : January 03, 2016 Published : January 11, 2016 Abstract
Programmed cell death-ligand 1(
PD-L1) was expressed in various malignancies, and interaction with its receptor
programmed cell death 1(PD-1) often contributed to immune evasion of tumor cells. In this study, we explored the expression of
PD-L1and its correlation with clinical outcomes in gliomas. Clinicopathological data of 229 patients with gliomas was collected.
PD-L1expression was assessed by tissue-microarray-based immunohistochemistry. Over 5% of tumor cells with cytoplasm or membrane staining was defined as
PD-L1positive expression. The associations of clinicopathological features with overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were analyzed by
univariate analysisand multivariate analysis was further performed by Cox regression model.
PD-L1positive expression was observed in 51.1% gliomas patients and no significant association was verified between
PD-L1expression and pathological grade in 229 gliomas patients. However,
PD-L1expression rate was 49.2%, 53.7% and 68.8% for grade II, III and IV in 161 patients with those ≥ 12 months of OS, respectively. Although no significant discrepancies was displayed, there was a certain degree of differences between
PD-L1expression and pathological grade (49.2% vs. 53.7% vs. 68.8%, P = 0.327).
Univariate analysisshowed that
PD-L1expression was significantly associated with poor OS in the patients with long-time survival or follow up (OS ≥ 12 months) (P = 0.018), especially in patients with grade IV (P = 0.019). Multivariate analysis revealed that a strong tendency towards statistical significance was found between
PD-L1expression and poor OS (P = 0.081). In gliomas patients with long-time survival or follow up,
PD-L1positive expression could indicate the poor prognosis and it is possible that immunotherapy targeting
PD-L1pathway needed to be determined in the further study.
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