In fact, studies suggest that TIME profoundly differs between epithelioid and non-epithelioid pleural mesotheliomas: the former typically have an immune-activated TIME with greater proportion of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (DC), CD20+ B cells, CD4+ helper T cells, and exhausted CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), whereas non-epithelioid mesotheliomas have a TIME with a larger proportion of macrophages, regulatory T cells, mesothelioma stem cells, and neutrophils [27]. Here, CD8A is linked to malignant epithelioid mesothelioma.