However, partly due to the small sample size, the difference did not reach statistical significance despite pooling of the increase and no-change groups (Fisher’s exact test p=0.066).
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Interleukin 8 activity influences the efficacy of adenoviral oncolytic immunotherapy in cancer patients.
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Change in IL-8 expression was not correlated with overall survival, but as seen for IL-8 analysis in blood, we observed an interesting trend for longer survival in patients with low pre-treatment IL-8 expression in tumors, although the difference did not reach statistical significance (p=0.058) in this small patient cohort.
In an extension cohort of patients, low baseline IL-8 RNA expression in tumor biopsy or effusion samples showed a trend for longer overall survival.