PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Lars Henning Schmidt AU - Andreas Kümmel AU - Dennis Görlich AU - Michael Mohr AU - Sebastian Bröckling AU - Inga Grünewald AU - Eva Wardelmann AU - Anne Schultheis AU - Jan-Henrik Mikesch AU - Benedikt Vietmeier AU - Carsten Müller-Tidow AU - Alessandro Marra AU - Christoph Schliemann AU - Wofgang E. Berdel AU - Wolfgang Hartmann AU - Wiewrodt Rainer TI - The prognostic impact of PD1 and PDL1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer AID - 10.1183/13993003.congress-2015.PA4244 DP - 2015 Sep 01 TA - European Respiratory Journal PG - PA4244 VI - 46 IP - suppl 59 4099 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/46/suppl_59/PA4244.short 4100 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/46/suppl_59/PA4244.full SO - Eur Respir J2015 Sep 01; 46 AB - Introduction: To improve the prognosis of lung cancer patients, immunotherapy is expected to become a powerful therapeutic option. Several clinical studies demonstrate a positive prognostic effect of a targeted therapy against the programmed cell death receptor PD1 and its ligand PDL1 in solid tumors. For non-small lung cancer (NSCLC) however, the diagnostic, prognostic and predictive impact of these factors needs to be clarified.Materials and Methods: Immunohistochemistry was performed to evaluate the expression profile of PD1 and PDL1 in 398 NSCLC patients (median age: 66 years, 78% male sex, 45% squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) histology). Statistical analysis included Fisher's Exact test, univariate and multivariate models.Results: 23% of the NSCLC samples expressed PDL1 and 11% of the investigated tumors displayed PD1 in tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). A positive correlation with PD1-positive lymphocytes was found for male sex (p=0.022), age below 70 years (p=0.039), adjuvant therapy (p=0.018) and Bcl-2 protein expression (p=0.012). PDL1 was associated with increased overall survival in SCC (p=0.031, log rank test; p=0.007, multivariate cox regression model: HR(95%CI)= 0.494(0.296-0.825)).Conclusion: In the context of immunotherapeutic approaches we present a histology-depending prognostic effect of PDL1 for NSCLC patients with SCC. With regard to the observed effect, further studies are required to evaluate the prospective impact of PD1 and PDL1 in NSCLC.