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NSCLC – Non small cell lungcarcinoma

Introduction

The update of the S3 guideline Prevention, Diagnostics, Therapy and After-Care of lung carcinomas, published in the year 2018, comments as follows on the PD-L1 testing:

“Testing for PD-L1 expression“

“In NSCLC, a correlation between the PD-L1 expression detected in immunohistochemistry and the reaction to a therapy with monoclonal antibodies aimed against PD-1 or PD-L1 has been proven in various studies. For this reason, immunohistochemical examinations are to be carried out on the question of a PD-L1 expression and the outcome stated as a percentage of tumor cells positive in the membrane (proportion score).

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