I have just read or heard in a video that some of
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Perhaps in that era of ici treatment they were more likely to treat with ici and pdl1 expression was not necessarily known before it was tried.
I know there is a lot of recent efforts to prevent treatment with ici if the tumor is not pdl1 positive.
But 5 years ago maybe that testing was nit as commonplace
From Dr. J recent interview:
"Jay Lalezari:15:08: Yeah, the patients who got the checkpoint inhibitor, it was completely up to the treating oncologist. And actually several of them had previously received a checkpoint inhibitor and failed. So this was a Hail Mary on the part of the treating oncologist"
Ps. No, I'm not saying they were expressing pdl1 before leronlimab. But they received ici before the leronlimab treatment anway

