Abstract: A method for screening patients with a cancer comprising i) determining in a tumor sample obtained from a patient an expression level ELA1-ELAn of one or several genes GA1-GAn representative of human adaptive immune response and an expression level ELI1-ELIn of one or several genes GI1-GIn representative of human immunosuppressive response, ii) comparing the expression levels ELA1-ELAn and ELI1-ELIn determined at step i) with predetermined reference values ELRA1-ELRAn and ELRI1-ELRIn selected such as said predetermined reference values separate a panel of patients with a cancer into two groupings according to the expression level of said genes and to survival of patients according to Kaplan Meier curves analyses and associated logrank p values iii) concluding whether the patient has a good (level higher than the predetermined reference value) or a bad (level lower than the predetermined reference value) adaptive immune response and a good or a bad immunosuppressive response, optionally further comprising a st