Immunotherapy: Is there a way to test for our systemic response?

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    • April 17, 2017 at 3:48 am
    MovingOn
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      With all of the advances in immunotherapy (which is amazing!) I'm wondering why there aren't tests to prove a systemic response to immunotherapy.

      i wouldn't want to injected dead melanoma (if that is even possible). But it seems like there would be a test of some sort to show that our immune system is attacking melanoma cells or is not attacking them. For unresectable patients the evidence is obvious but for us resected patients it would be nice to definitively know if we are durable responders.

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        • April 17, 2017 at 8:51 pm
        Mat
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          If you do a Google search for University of Pennsylvania and Sean Carter, there is a recent press release about a test Penn and Sloan have developed to test the effectiveness of checkpoint inhibitors at around week 6 (rather than waiting for scans at week 12).  The test han't yet been commercialized, etc. but they're on the path.

            • April 17, 2017 at 9:02 pm
            Mat
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              Meant to say Sean Parker (the Napster, Facebook guy).

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