Relationship between Tumor Mutational Burden, PD-L1, Patient Characteristics, and Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Cancers (Basel) · 2021 · PMC8616373 · PMID 34830888

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did not quite reach significancep = 0.051so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

When TMB score was added to the adjusted variables above, the 2tPD-L1 more accurately could predict survival; however, this, too, did not quite reach significance ( p = 0.051) ( Table 4 ). 3.6.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

This trend did not reach statistical significance possibly due to the inherent lower number of females inflicted by this type of cancer and subsequently being included in our analysis.

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