Herein, we report the case of a 68-year-old male with non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) who received two cycles of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) antibody sintilimab immunotherapy combined with albumin-bound paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy and one cycle of sintilimab monotherapy. Here, PDCD1 is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.