ArticleJournal of Cancer2020
Determination of the Expression of PD-L1 in the Morphologic Spectrum of Renal Cell Carcinoma.
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- Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) immunohistochemical expression in fumarate hydratase-deficient renal cell carcinoma: biological and potential predictive implications.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2025Article
- Oncometabolite fumarate facilitates PD-L1 expression and immune evasion in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- Association between PD-L1 Expression and the Prognosis and Clinicopathologic Features of Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Bilateral fumarate hydratase deficient renal cell carcinoma in a patient with hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer syndrome.IJU case reports · 2024Article
- Combination of the cuproptosis inducer disulfiram and anti‑PD‑L1 abolishes NSCLC resistance by ATP7B to regulate the HIF‑1 signaling pathway.International journal of molecular medicine · 2024Article
- Genomic profiling and molecular characterization of non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a narrative review from a clinical perspective.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2024Review
- Fumarate hydratase (FH) and cancer: a paradigm of oncometabolism.British journal of cancer · 2023Review
- TFEB Rearranged Renal Cell Carcinoma: Pathological and Molecular Characterization of 10 Cases, with Novel Clinical Implications: A Single Center 10-Year Experience.Biomedicines · 2023Article
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- Tumor cell PD-L1 expression is a strong predictor of unfavorable prognosis in immune checkpoint therapy-naive clear cell renal cell cancer.International urology and nephrology · 2021Article
- Response to Combination of Pembrolizumab and Axitinib in Hereditary Leyomiomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC).Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Article
- TFEB rearranged renal cell carcinoma. A clinicopathologic and molecular study of 13 cases. Tumors harboring MALAT1-TFEB, ACTB-TFEB, and the novel NEAT1-TFEB translocations constantly express PDL1.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2021Article
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Abstract
Immunotherapy is reportedly an effective form of therapy for some advanced cancers such as lung adenocarcinoma, malignant melanoma and colorectal adenocarcinoma. In renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the role of immunotherapy is under investigation. Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a molecule expressed on the surface of certain tumor cells and binds to the Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) on cytotoxic T-cells, an interaction that inhibits the antitumor immune response. The aim of this study is to evaluate PD-L1 expression in the morphologic spectrum of RCC. A total of 172 cases of RCC comprising all types were studied and the PD-L1 was correlated with immune response for CD4 and CD8. Positive membranous staining for PD-L1 was seen in 59 (34%) of the 172 samples. The positive cases were HLRCC (31/53), Type 1 Papillary RCC (10/31), Chromophobe (7/20), Hybrid (3/9), TFE-3 related cancer (3/8), Undifferentiated (3/5), and TFEB tumors (2/2). Clear cell carcinomas, Oncocytomas and SDHB deficient-RCC didn't show any expression of PD-L1; (0/34;0/7;0/3). Our results demonstrated that aggressive forms of RCC such as HLRCC have high expression of PD-L1, in contrast to clear cell renal carcinomas. Our findings support a possible role of anti-PD-L1/PD-1 immunotherapies in the treatment of PD-L1-positive RCC.
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