CD274 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: The results have demonstrated that there are no significant associations between PD-L1 expression and tumor size (OR = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.70 to 1.36, p-value = 0.89) [14,15,17,18,27], tumor stage (OR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.29 to 1.67, p-value = 0.42) [14,15,17,27], lymph node metastasis (OR = 1.06, 95% CI: 0.75 to 1.49, p-value = 0.74) [14,15,17,18,27], histological grade (OR = 1.49, 95% CI: 0.68 to 3.29, p-value = 0.32) [14,15,18,27], and Ki67 (OR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.00 to 1.35, p-value = 0.05) [15,27] (All p-values ≥ 0.05).