Potential prognostic value of PD-L1 and NKG2A expression in Indonesian patients with skin nodular melanoma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Biomarker mRNA levels have been suggested to be predictors of patient survival and therapy response in melanoma cases. This study aimed to investigate the correlations between the mRNA expression levels of PD-L1 and NKG2A in melanoma tissue with clinicopathologic characteristics and survival in Indonesian primary nodular melanoma patients.

Results

Thirty-one tissue samples were obtained; two were excluded from survival analysis due to Breslow depth of less than 4 mm. The median survival of upregulated and normoregulated PD-L1-patients were 15.800 ± 2.345 and 28.945 ± 4.126 months, respectively. However, this difference was not significant statistically (p = 0.086). Upregulated and normoregulated NKG2A patients differed very little in median survival time (25.943 ± 

SUBMITTER: Saputro RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8161664 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature