FCGRT and non-small cell lung carcinoma: Although our study suffers from the common limitations of investigations with surgical tumor samples, being mainly descriptive, as well as a retrospective nature and a certain degree of heterogeneity of the samples, our results identified FCGRT mRNA level as a robust and independent marker of NSCLC patient outcome and add to the existing evidences on the central role of the tumor's niche on carcinogenesis and disease progression [33].