Tumor Area Positivity (TAP) score of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1): a novel visual estimation method for combined tumor cell and immune cell scoring

• Main Authors: Chunyan Liu (Author), Fang Fang (Author), Ying Kong (Author), Ehab A. ElGabry (Author)
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• Udgivet: BMC, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Determination of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) protein expression level in tumor cells and tumor-associated immune cells is critical for identifying patients eligible for immunotherapy. PD-L1 manual scoring algorithms can generally be divided into two categories: cell countin...