In a patient series of loco-regional metastases from nodular melanomas (n = 78; n = 26 skin metastases, n = 52 lymph node metastases), expression of PD-L1 in tumour cells and the number of CD3, CD8, FOXP3 and PD-L1 positive TILs were determined by immunohistochemistry on tissue microarray (TMA) slides. This evidence concerns the gene FOXP3 and neoplasm.