Konstantinos Efthymiadis

Konstantinos Efthymiadis


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1Year (2026-Present)

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KEKonstantinos Efthymiadis
Konstantinos Efthymiadis
CSChrysa Soteriou
Chrysa Soteriou
VKVassiliki Kotoula
Vassiliki Kotoula
KPKYRIAKI PAPADOPOULOU
KYRIAKI PAPADOPOULOU
APAbraham Pouliakis
Abraham Pouliakis
HLHelena Linardou
Helena Linardou
Integrated assessment of tumour genomics and immune biomarkers may improve prognostic stratification in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We examined the distribution and prognostic relevance of somatic pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PVs), somatic copy-number alterations (SCNAs), programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in a multicentre cohort. This retrospective, multicentre study included 367 unselected patients with histologically confirmed NSCLC treated at 19 centres in Greece between 2000 and 2020. Targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) was performed in 267 tumours; PD-L1 tumour proportion score (TPS) and haematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-based TIL density were evaluated in 298 and 352 tumours, respectively. Overall survival (OS) was assessed using Kaplan–Meier and multivariable Cox regression analyses. TP53 (53.6%) and KRAS (16.5%) were the most frequently detected genes with PVs; SCNAs were identified in 22.5% of sequenced tumours and were more frequent in squamous than non-squamous histology. In multivariable analysis (254 complete cases), TIL density ≥10% (hazard ratio [HR] 0.72, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.52–0.99; p = 0.042) and ≥2 mutated genes (HR 1.44, 95% CI 1.08–1.92; p = 0.014) were independently associated with OS. PIK3CA-containing copy-number gains were significantly enriched in squamous tumours with low TIL density (p = 0.024), while FGFR1-containing copy-number gains showed a similar but non-significant trend (p = 0.088). In the present retrospective study, co-mutation burden and TIL density provided complementary prognostic information beyond clinicopathological variables in NSCLC. The association between selected copy-number gains and an immune-poor squamous phenotype warrants prospective validation.