Cancer

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New drug cures cancer for 100% of patients in trial
Anugraha Sundaravelu - 8h ago
Doctors have successfully cured rectal cancer in patients thanks to an experimental drug trial.

Oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York found that the latest tests of patients showed no evidence of cancer.

The treatment uses immunotherapy which harnesses the body’s own immune system as an ally against cancer.

Sascha Roth, the first patient in the clinical trial involving immunotherapy had undergone six months of treatment.

For the first time, the MSK clinical trial was investigating if immunotherapy alone could beat rectal cancer that had not spread to other tissues, in a subset of patients whose tumour contained a specific genetic mutation.

As the first patient to enroll in the trial, the research team was anxious that Roth’s experience might prove to be an outlier but the same remarkable result was repeated in all 14 people in the trial.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-drug-cures-cancer-for-100-of-patients-in-trial/ar-AAYaPCb

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