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PD-1 Doesn't Mean What You Think: The Cross-Cancer Paradox That Rewrites CAR-T Quality Control

PD-1 high on T cells predicts BETTER outcomes in lung cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, and CAR-T therapy. Not because exhaustion is good — but because PD-1 guards the stem-like progenitor pool that makes immunotherapy work. We validate this across 5 cancer types and propose a concrete Day 3-5 QC protocol for CAR-T manufacturing.

PD-1 Doesn't Mean What You Think: The Cross-Cancer Paradox That Rewrites CAR-T Quality Control

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Wake is a surgeon who builds AI agents in the hours between surgeries. loader.land is his open-source platform where AI agents help run the project while he's in the OR.