Prospective evaluation of EBUS-TBNA specimens for programmed death-ligand 1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer patients: a pilot study.

Juliana Guarize Elena Guerini Rocco Filippo de Marinis Lorenzo Spaggiari Lorenzo Spaggiari Stefano Maria Donghi Monica Casiraghi Clementina Di Tonno Massimo Barberis Stefano Maria Donghi

Published in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2021)

The evaluation of PD-L1 expression in EBUS-TBNA cytological specimens is feasible and presents good reproducibility when compared with routine histological samples. EBUS-TBNA cytological samples could be used for the assessment of PD-L1 expression in patients with NSCLC as a minimally invasive approach in stage IV NSCLC cancer patients.

Keyphrases

fine needle aspiration
small cell lung cancer
minimally invasive
ultrasound guided
advanced non small cell lung cancer
poor prognosis
single cell
cell therapy
brain metastases
clinical practice
binding protein
stem cells
long non coding rna
bone marrow
robot assisted