Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) translocations were found in eight patients (4.6%) and were mutually exclusive with mutations in EGFR and KRAS. Immunohistochemical analysis of lung adenocarcinoma tumour tissues showed that PKM2 was primarily expressed in the cytoplasm of tumour cells, whereas PD-L1 was expressed both on the membrane and in the cytoplasm of tumour cells (Fig. 1). Here, EGFR is linked to neoplasm.