Aug 3, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 12 segments
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Jay ChaplinHost
And the key one that people don't really commonly think about will be the second that I talk about.

They tend to think that there are certain cancers that immunotherapies work very well for and certain cancers that it works very poorly for.

For instance, there's this thought that melanoma is very responsive to immunotherapies, and that is generally true.

But that's not what actually determines whether an immunotherapy will be useful or not.

There are certain cancers that are generally thought of as non-responsive for immunotherapies.

Many breast cancers are not responsive to immunotherapies, but there are ways that you can tell, and we'll come back to that in a moment.

And the key one that people don't really commonly think about will be the second that I talk about.

They tend to think that there are certain cancers that immunotherapies work very well for and certain cancers that it works very poorly for.

For instance, there's this thought that melanoma is very responsive to immunotherapies, and that is generally true.

But that's not what actually determines whether an immunotherapy will be useful or not.

There are certain cancers that are generally thought of as non-responsive for immunotherapies.

Many breast cancers are not responsive to immunotherapies, but there are ways that you can tell, and we'll come back to that in a moment.
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