Cancer treatment shows "unheard of" results

[Gunz]

Some positive cancer treatment news. Hopefully this treatment will be proven effective in other types of cancer.

'Great Optimism' Over Complete Responses in dMMR Rectal Cancer

 

[Dame]

All patients had mismatch repair-deficient stage 2 or 3 rectal adenocarcinoma. The authors note that these tumors respond poorly to standard chemotherapy regimens, including neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The median age of enrolled patients was 54 years and 62% were women.

The above is truly amazing. Stage 3 of any cancer means it has spread to the lymph system and other organs. Granted this is just remission, but a complete remission. That is leaps and bounds ahead of most "wonder" cancer drugs which will give the patient 3-4 extra months of life.