Doctors are left stunned after cancer ‘disappears’ for EVERY patient in drug trial — raising hopes treatment is ’tip of the iceberg‘ and can be used to help people fighting other forms of the disease

Jun 8, 2022

Doctors are left stunned after cancer ‘disappears’ for EVERY patient in drug trial — raising hopes treatment is ’tip of the iceberg‘ and can be used to help people fighting other forms of the disease

Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical

A new colorectal cancer drug has shocked researchers with how effective it is against the highly dangerous disease, after it virtually cured every member of a clinical trial.

Dostarlimab, a monoclonal antibody drug that is already approved to treat endometrial cancer in the UK, smashed expectations in a trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

One year after the trial ended, each of the 18 participants’ cancer had gone into remission, with doctors unable to find signs of the cancer in their body.