Journal of Cytology & Histology

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA

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  Comparison of Programmed Death Ligand 1 (Pd-L1) Immunostaining for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) between Paired Cytological and Surgical Samples
  Author(s): Michael Magguilli, MD, Donna Russell, CT (ASCP), Qi Yang, Loralee McMahon and Zhongren Zhou MD, PhD
  
  Introduction: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a poor prognosis with surgery or chemotherapy. PD-L1 immunotherapy has been successful for treating lung and other cancers with PD-L1 expression. However,in many unresectable PDAC cases, cytological samples are the only available tissues for PD-L1 testing. The aim of this study is to retrospectively compare the expression of PD-L1 using cytological and surgical samples. Materials and Methods: Paired formalin-fixed cell blocks and surgical samples from the same patients with confirmed diagnoses of PDAC (n=28) were sectioned for PD-L1 immunohistochemistry. Using tumor proportion score (TPS) and combined positive score (CPS) to evaluate paired cell blocks and surgical samples, we counted and analyzed the data. Results: With TPS, the PD-L1 was expressed in 9/28 (32%.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2157-7099.2021.12.566

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