Clinical significance of soluble programmed cell death-1 and soluble programmed cell death-ligand 1 in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

PLoS One · 2019 · PMC6390997 · PMID 30807610

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0.0752

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Patients with a high sPD-L1 level after CRT showed a trend for worse disease-free survival (DFS) than those with a low sPD-L1 level (p = 0.0752); although, the p-value did not reach statistical significance ( Fig 2B ).

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