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Not eligible for Immunotherapy. Now what?

Lung Cancer | Last Active: May 22 5:00pm | Replies (58)

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This is what I’ve just found:

“A PD-L1 test uses a sample of cancerous tumor tissue to measure how much of a protein called PD-L1 is found on the cancer cells. If you have certain types of cancer, PD-L1 testing can check whether you may benefit from a type of cancer treatment called immunotherapy.”

So it seems that immunotherapy only works if you have/had PD-L1 in your cancer cells?

I don’t know if my husband’s original LC tumor had PD-L1 cells. And altho the mass on his adrenal glad thought to be LC metastasis, the biopsy sample did not report cancerous cells. So I do not know if he qualifies for immunotherapy.

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I'm also confused by this. My oncologist works a lot with immunotherapies at UCSF and he's told me I'm still a candidate for Keytruda even though they couldn't find any biomarkers and there is no evidence of PD-L1. I can't find much information on the internet about being successfully treated with immunotherapy drugs if you don't have biomarkers.