{"id":140216,"date":"2022-06-06T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/every-single-patient-in-this-small-experimental-drug-trial-saw-their-cancer-disappear"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:04:14","slug":"every-single-patient-in-this-small-experimental-drug-trial-saw-their-cancer-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/every-single-patient-in-this-small-experimental-drug-trial-saw-their-cancer-disappear","title":{"rendered":"Every Single Patient in This Small Experimental Drug Trial Saw Their Cancer Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJZ61cEHXWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In what appears to be a very promising breakthrough for the treatment of rectal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a>, a small drug trial conducted in the US found every patient treated in the experiment had their cancer successfully go into remission.<\/p>\n<p>The medication given, called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dostarlimab\">dostarlimab<\/a> and sold under the brand name Jemperli, is an immunotherapy drug used in the treatment of endometrial cancer, but this was the first clinical investigation of whether it was also effective against rectal cancer tumors.<\/p>\n<p>The early results reported so far suggest it is surprisingly effective, with the research team saying the successful cancer remission seen in every trial patient may be unprecedented for a cancer drug intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude03 In what appears to be a very promising breakthrough for the treatment of rectal cancer, a small drug trial conducted in the US found every patient treated in the experiment had their cancer successfully go into remission. The medication given, called dostarlimab and sold under the brand name Jemperli, is an immunotherapy drug used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}