ALC: absolute lymphocyte counts; cN: clinical nodal status; CI: confidence interval; cT: clinical tumor size; DDFS: distant disease-free survival; HG: histological grade; HR: hazard ratio; IC: immune cells; NAC: neoadjuvant chemotherapy; NLR: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; OS: overall survival; pCR: pathological complete response; PD-L1: programmed cell death ligand 1; TC: tumor cells; TILs: tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Here, CD274 is linked to neoplasm.