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Unanswered questions: immunotherapy for lung cancer
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How does one afford those immunotherapy treatments?. I have not yet been informed of this treatment. I have my after treatment pet scan on 12/27 and an appointment to discuss the results on 1/3. I did recently have a CT scan and my oncologist says tumor shrunk and what remains can either be cancer or scar tissue. The pet scan will be definite as to which it is. I am staying positive and hoping for the best.
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When you were biopsied a piece of the tissue was sent for biomarker testing. At that time your PD-L1 level should have been tested along with genomic mutation testing.
Receiving immunotherapy depends on the result of that test and the stage of your cancer. It is not always indicated in stage1 and some stage 2 cancers.