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Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) is the standard first-line therapy for metastatic lung adenocarcinoma harboring sensitive EGFR mutations. Tumor surface programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is expressed in some metastatic EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma, but its impact on the efficacy of EGFR-TKIs is unclear. We retrospectively investigated 117 untreated metastatic lung EGFR mutated adenocarcinoma patients with a PD-L1 immunohistochemistry test. The PD-L1 expression level was classified by tumor proportion scores (TPS). Forty-five patients had negative expression (TPS &lt; 1%), 45 had a weak expression (TPS 1-49%), and 27 had a strong expression (≥50%). All patients recruited in this study received EGFR-TKIs as a first-line therapy. No significant differences were observed for objective response rates (68.9% versus 62.2% versus 73.1%, p = 0.807) and median time to treatment failure (TTF) (12.17 versus 13.17 versus 11.0 months, p = 0.443) of first-line EGFR-TKIS among the three groups of patients (negative versus weak versus strong). The median overall survival was 21.27 versus 20.63 versus 19.43 months among the three groups of patients ( p = 0.77). Our results demonstrated that PD-L1 did not affect the efficacy of first-line EGFR-TKIs in metastatic EGFR mutated lung adenocarcinoma. Thus, EGFR-TKIs are suggested as the preferred clinical therapy for these patients, despite their PD-L1 levels.

The Co-Expression of Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) in Untreated EGFR-Mutated Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinoma