{"id":141197,"date":"2022-06-28T02:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/cancer-trial-delivers-unheard-of-result-complete-remission-for-everyone"},"modified":"2022-06-28T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T07:40:59","slug":"cancer-trial-delivers-unheard-of-result-complete-remission-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/cancer-trial-delivers-unheard-of-result-complete-remission-for-everyone","title":{"rendered":"Cancer trial delivers \u2018unheard-of\u2019 result: complete remission for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-trial-delivers-unheard-of-result-complete-remission-for-everyone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small trial of a new cancer drug has reportedly provided a result never before seen \u2014 the total remission of cancer in all of its participants.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2201445\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>, a dozen rectal cancer patients saw their tumors disappear completely after they received an experimental drug called dostarlimab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,\u201d Dr. Luis Alberto Diaz Jr., one of the trial leaders and a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/05\/health\/rectal-cancer-checkpoint-inhibitor.html\">told The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small trial of a new cancer drug has reportedly provided a result never before seen \u2014 the total remission of cancer in all of its participants. According to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, a dozen rectal cancer patients saw their tumors disappear completely after they received an experimental drug called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141197","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}