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Not eligible for Immunotherapy. Now what?

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

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.

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abob | @abob | May 20 1:47pm

I found situations when Keytruda can be used. Many do not mention PD-L1. I think the below applies to my husband.

“KEYTRUDA is a prescription medicine used to treat a kind of lung cancer called non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
- It may be used with the chemotherapy medicines pemetrexed and a platinum as your first treatment when your lung cancer has spread (advanced NSCLC) and is a type called “nonsquamous” and your tumor does not have an abnormal “EGFR” or “ALK” gene. “

Here’s the link:
https://www.keytruda.com/keytruda-faq/

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