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  • NYC Rectal Cancer Trial Delivers ‘Unheard-of' Result: Complete Remission for Everyone (trial size = 12)

    Source: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/heal...ryone/3721476/

    NYC Cancer Trial Delivers ‘Unheard-of' Result: Complete Remission for Everyone
    Patients with a particular kind of cancer and a particular kind of mutation received a new therapy called dostarlimab and had results not seen in a cancer trial before
    Published June 6, 2022 • Updated 35 mins ago

    A small NYC-led cancer trial has achieved a result reportedly never before seen - the total remission of cancer in all of its patients.

    To be sure, the trial — led by doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering and backed by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline — has only completed treatment of 12 patients, with a specific cancer in its early stages and with a rare mutation as well.

    But the results, reported Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine and the New York Times, were still striking enough to prompt multiple physicians to tell the paper they were believed to be unprecedented.

    One cancer specialist told the Times it was an "unheard-of" result.

    According to the NEJM paper and the Times report, all 12 patients had rectal cancer that had not spread beyond the local area, and their tumors all exhibited a mutation affecting the ability of cells to repair damage to DNA...

  • #2
    Amazing results!

    At the time of this report, no patients had received chemoradiotherapy or undergone surgery, and no cases of progression or recurrence had been reported during follow-up (range, 6 to 25 months). No adverse events of grade 3 or higher have been reported.
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    • #3
      Fantastic!....sample size small at 12 but hopefully this result will bear out in a larger trial.

      Please people, do your cancer screenings....there are so many effective treatments now.....

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