Although the expression of both PD-L1 and HHLA2 could be induced by immunoregulatory factors within the tumor microenvironment, the cells with HHLA2 (+)/PD-L1 (+) are low (16%) and quite part of the cases with PD-L1 negative contained a high expression of HHLA2 in lung cancer.15 Similarly, in our results, we found that the percentages of HHLA2 (+)/PD-L1 (+) were only 19.4% in the training cohort and 19.2% in the validation cohort, and >30% of PD-L1 (−) cases have high expression of HHLA2. Here, HHLA2 is linked to lung cancer.