Background: Approximately 10% to 15% of patients with solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (SFTP) have recurrence after resection. Many are not candidates for reresection and lack effective treatments. We explored the expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) as a biomarker for candidacy for treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 52 patients with primary SFTP and 5 with recurrent SFTP. We performed immunohistochemistry on tumor tissue to determine the expression of PD-L1 and infiltration by cluster of differentiation 8 (CD8)-positive immune cells.

Results: Any PD-L1 expression was observed in 11 primary SFTP (21.2%). Overall, PD-L1 expression level was less than 1% in 10 patients (19.2%) and greater than 1% in 1 (1.9%). Tumor infiltration by CD8-positive immune cells was absent or rare in 13 patients (25%), less than 5% in 31 (59.6%), and 5% to 25% in 8 (15.4%). There were no associations between PD-L1 expression or immune cell infiltrates and known risk factors for recurrence or a prognostic risk score classification. Time to recurrence was strongly associated with the risk score classification (P < .001), but it was not associated with PD-L1 expression (P = .296) or immune cell infiltrates (P = .619). In recurrent SFTP, PD-L1 was expressed in 4 of 10 tumors (40%; all <1% expression). There was no correlation in PD-L1 expression between primary and recurrent SFTP samples.

Conclusions: A small subset of SFTP express PD-L1 at low levels (<1%) but exhibit colocalization of CD8-positive immune cells suggesting an inducible expression mechanism. The role of PD-L1 merits exploration in the clinical setting in patients with advanced SFTP when alternative treatments or clinical trials are considered.

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