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Tumor did not shrink after immunotherapy, however surgery was only a few weeks after the infusions. Tumor size on CT scans was 2.9 cm but at surgery it measured 3.5 cm. Don't know if this was due to tumor growth or just accuracy of CT scans. I've also read about the possibility of pseudoprogression, where the tumor appears to grow after immunotherapy but is not actually growing due to the cancer, but swelling due to the immunotherapy. I have no idea whether that actually applies in my case. CA 19-9 dropped from 165 before infusions to 145 at time of surgery.
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Dale
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Sorry more answers: No assessments from the clinical trials team yet, it's too early. I imagine that will take time. I have no mutations at all. Criteria for entering trial was my tumor had to be resectable, no sign of metastases, and that I had had no other previous treatments for it. Also had to have good liver blood levels (which was tricky because I had been jaundiced, had a bile stent put in and my levels slowly came down to normal just in time). Had to have other tests like HIV.