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Hi Gaybinator,
Do you know what type of immunotherapy would be considered for your husband? I'm wondering if it might be nivolumab (Opdivo) http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/871774
I believe @sylviapf's husband was or is in treatment with nivolumab or pembrolizumab (Keytruda). @alpaca, do you have any experience or knowledge about immunotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma?
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Found out Thursday that it will be Keytruda starting 6/20/2017. Wondering about @sylviapf 's husband's experience?
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We don't have Keytruda funded here in NZ although it has been authorised and some head and neck cancer patients pay for it privately. A guy on one of my Facebook groups with metastatic cancer is doing well on it - in the USA. I think Opdivo is approved too but not funded. Sounds as if Ketruda will shrink tumours in some people with SCC.