Epidemiologic Multicenter Prospective Study in Advanced NSCLC (Non Small Cell Lung Cancer) Patients With PDL1 (Protein Death Ligand 1) Expression.

Epidemiologic multicenter prospective study in advanced NSCLC patients with PDL1 expression : evaluation of clinical and pathological characteristics of PDL1 high expression patients compared to patients with a weak or no expression of PDL1.

Few data are published on the clinical and pathological characteristics of advanced NSCLC with high PDL1 expression compare to weak and no expression populations. There is not for the moment a standard test to determine a relevant target population. Preliminary data showed that around 25% of the NSCLC population may have a high PDL1 expression and may have a greater benefit of anti PDL1 therapy. But in fact limited data have been published in European populations on the clinical and pathological characteristics (high PDL1 expression) compared to the weak expression and no expression populations. More over the prognosis rule of a high PDL1 expression in NSCLC is not definitive, with some studies indicating it is a positive prognostic factor while other studies showing that it is a negative prognostic factor. To understand if there are differences in terms of prognostic between advanced NSCLC with high and low/no expression of PDL1 is a major challenge for the future management strategy of these patients. The results of this study should helps to elaborate new guidelines for this population. Therefore is also important to had data's on the natural course of the disease in these population for building cost effectiveness models of new immune therapies.