Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and PD-L1 expression in breast cancer and its clinical significance.

Breast Cancer Res · 2017 · PMC5547502 · PMID 28784153

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.09so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

However, the post-treatment increase in TIL counts did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.09).

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a clear trendno p-value reported

Although this cohort is not directly comparable with ours, the results present some similarity in the difficulty to trace a clear trend between ER status and TIL change following treatment.

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