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Results from a small cancer trial that left every patient in remission is being praised as “unprecedented” and “remarkable.”
A paper published on Sunday at The New England Journal of Medicine outlined a study of 18 rectal cancer patients who were given dostarlimab every three weeks for six months and ended up cancer-free, including the first patient who is now two years out from the trial.
“I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” said Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. said, an author of the paper, The New York Times reported.
Those who took the drug, which “unmasks cancer cells, allowing the immune system to identify and destroy them,” according to the Times, did not have to move on to further cancer treatments.
All the patients “had a clinical complete response, with no evidence of tumor on magnetic resonance imaging,” the paper explained. “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.”
May 12, 2021 - On April 22, 2021, the Food and Drug Administrationgranted accelerated approval to dostarlimab-gxly (Jemperli, GlaxoSmithKline LLC). Efficacy was evaluated based on cohort (A1) in GARNET Trial (NCT02715284), a multicenter, multicohort, open-label trial in patients with advanced solid tumors.
originally posted by: infolurker
It appears dostarlimab cured / caused remission of all the cancer patients in the trial. No chemo or surgery was used. This is amazing!
originally posted by: marg6043
Guys pharma will never allow to cure, fix or make anybody healthy or free from diseases, that will mean cutting into their insane and obscene profits.
We do have a Pharma mafia in the US.
Pharma wants people to die while been treated with crap.
originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: rickymouse
It'll be cheaper to pay BLM to loot them, mercenary protesting is a thing now.
Someone just needs to trigger AOC into making this her cause.
Someone will be along shortly to explain that if poor people can't afford the treatment it's their own fault because they are poor.