Clinical Significance of Tumor Microenvironment in Acral Melanoma: A Large Single-Institution Study of Caucasians.
Aneta Maria BorkowskaAnna Szumera-CiećkiewiczMaria ChraszczewskaKamil SokółTomasz GoryńPiotr Lukasz RutkowskiPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
High TILs content (classed as brisk Clark scale and marked/diffuse TILs MIA grade) regardless of its immunophenotype was associated with better survival outcomes in AM. PD-L1 expression on tumor cells did not influence OS and was independent of clinical and pathological characteristics. We demonstrated that TILs are significant biomarkers in sentinel lymph node status prediction.