PD-L1 expression

P2, N=120, Recruiting, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | Trial completion date: Feb 2026 --> Dec 2029 | Trial primary completion date: Feb 2026 --> Dec 2029

Real-world evidence confirms the long-term effectiveness and safety of pembrolizumab monotherapy for advanced NSCLC with PD-L1 ≥50%. Survival outcomes closely mirrored those from previous trials, supporting the generalizability of pembrolizumab's benefit across routine practice.

PACIFIC-R provides mature data on OS and rwPFS from a large, real-world cohort, supporting consolidation durvalumab as a standard of care in this setting.

Management required multidisciplinary coordination and included carboplatin, paclitaxel, and pembrolizumab, followed by radiation to the orbit, iliac crest, and mediastinal sites of disease. Unfortunately, he experienced progression while on maintenance immunotherapy with new rib and brain lesions, for which he underwent treatment with platinum, pemetrexed, and bevacizumab with additional radiotherapy...Our findings underscore the need for ophthalmology, radiation oncology, and medical oncology collaboration when vision-threatening or occult metastatic lesions arise., For readers, the takeaway is that choroidal metastasis-particularly in the era of immunotherapy-warrants individualized, multidisciplinary evaluation rather than default palliation. Our case demonstrates that coordinated multimodality management can achieve long-term disease control, highlighting a treatment paradigm worth considering for selected patients and calling for updated guidelines that reflect modern therapeutic capabilities.

In our patient cohort TP53 was the most frequently mutated gene (5 out of 8, 62.5%) and PD-L1 expression showed a positive score in 3 out of 6 patients (50%). However, only a few patients received immunotherapy (6 out of 14, 42.9%) suggesting that the numbers are too small to draw a conclusion about its efficacy in treating HAC.

This is one of the first studies evaluating data on the expression of PDL-1 in oral cavity cancers in the Indian population and the factors affecting it. The data provides novel insights into many factors potentially affecting the expression of PDL-1 in oral cavity cancers and in the future, can be of help in developing treatment plans with various immunotherapies.

Activated CD24 promoted HCC formation through programmed death-ligand 1 signaling and could be a valuable biomarker for monitoring chronic liver disease malignancy.

Despite peritoneal carcinomatosis, the patient responded to cisplatin/gemcitabine chemotherapy and immunotherapy, demonstrating tumor shrinkage on follow-up imaging. This case highlights the diagnostic challenges of SRCC due to its nonspecific symptoms and potential histological overlap with other metastatic gastrointestinal tumors. Early recognition and a multidisciplinary approach are critical for improving patient outcomes.

Nonetheless, primary and acquired resistance driven by HER2 heterogeneity, immune evasion, and dynamic molecular evolution remain major challenges. Next-generation HER2-targeted therapies, including bispecific antibodies, novel antibody - drug conjugates, and dual HER2 antibodies will be crucial to further improve outcomes in this population.

With respect to drug response, PRKD1-high HCC cases exhibited increased predicted sensitivity to multiple tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), while in vitro PRKD1 knockdown reduced sorafenib sensitivity, and sorafenib treatment suppressed both PRKD1 and p-ERK1/2 levels. Collectively, our findings identify PRKD1 as a multifaceted contributor to HCC progression, immune microenvironment modulation, and TKI responsiveness. These results highlight PRKD1 as a promising therapeutic target warranting further mechanistic and translational investigation.

In vivo studies using a nude mouse model demonstrated that TEC inhibits tumor growth and downregulates ALOX5, 5-HETE, and PD-L1 expression in tumor tissues. The findings suggest that the ALOX5/5-HETE signaling pathway is crucial for regulating lipid metabolism and ferroptosis in ovarian cancer, and TEC may exert its anti-tumor effects, at least in part, by modulating this pathway (The graphical abstract was shown in Fig. 1).

Our findings provide strong support for the combined targeting of TGF-β and PD-L1 as a promising immunotherapeutic strategy to overcome immunosuppressive barriers in glioblastoma and induce potent antitumor responses.