Novartis AG
METHOD OF PREDICTING RESPONSE TO IMMUNOTHERAPY

Abstract:

The invention relates, in part, to methods of predicting a likelihood that a cancer patient will respond positively to immunotherapy. The methods include scoring a sample containing tumor tissue from a cancer patient, wherein the score is representative of a spatial proximity between at least one pair of cells, a first member of the at least one pair of cells expressing a first biomarker and a second member of the at least one pair of cells expressing a second biomarker that is different from the first biomarker, and deriving a value for % biomarker positivity (PBP) for all cells or optionally, one or more subsets thereof, present in a field of view of a tissue sample from the cancer patient.