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New drug trial for cancer treatment....EVERY patient in the trial went into remission
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:13 am
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:13 am
It's an encouraging read. Click the link for the full details, including photos of the patients and some of their stories.
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Every cancer patient enters remission after drug trial, study reveals
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A recent drug trial administered to a handful of cancer patients had the surprising result of eliminating the disease in every participant involved.
The study was conducted on 18 rectal cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and had a 100 percent success rate, according to a paper published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr, the author of the paper, told the New York Times.
The drug, dostarlimab, was administered to each patient every three weeks for six months.
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Participants in the study were suffering from rectal cancer and were given alternatives such as chemotherapy or a difficult surgery that could potentially lead to bowel or urinary dysfunction. Some patients are required to use a colostomy bag due to treatment, the Times said.
At the conclusion of the drug trial, however, the patients were spared the agony of potentially damaging treatment when they showed no evidence of a tumor after receiving an MRI, rectal examination and biopsy.
This post was edited on 6/8/22 at 10:14 am
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Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:14 am to frequent flyer
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:15 am to frequent flyer
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:16 am to frequent flyer
Sounds great.
Now expect Big Pharm and the FDA to find a way to shitcan this treatment as unsafe or slow-walk approval.
Now expect Big Pharm and the FDA to find a way to shitcan this treatment as unsafe or slow-walk approval.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:17 am to frequent flyer
Do we hate GlaxoSmithKline here? Just checking.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:18 am to frequent flyer
Absolutely no way our overlords in big pharma/government will frick this one up.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:18 am to frequent flyer
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18 rectal cancer patients
Unfortunately the treatment is a suppository and its the size of a tennis ball.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:18 am to frequent flyer
US Govt about to put this in a warehouse somewhere.
This post was edited on 6/8/22 at 10:20 am
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:18 am to frequent flyer
It amazes me that we’re in the 21st century and are still plagued with cancer. Maybe this is a step towards its eradication in our species.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:19 am to frequent flyer
This is huge
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:20 am to frequent flyer
Anything that kicks cancer's arse is great news. 
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:21 am to frequent flyer
They should call it Colon Blow because it can apparently clean anything out of your rectum.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:21 am to frequent flyer
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:26 am to frequent flyer
inb4 Joe Biden: "See, I told you I was going to cure cancer during my administration"
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:52 am to frequent flyer
I have rectal cancer and finished a 28 day treatment of chemoradiation four weeks ago. I'm scheduled for surgery on June 23. Robotic surgery that will require a temporary colonoscopy bag, with a planned reversal surgery about 8 weeks later.
When I first went to the corectal surgeon and he said that the chemoradiation treatment pre-surgery would hopefully shrink the tumor, making surgery easier and less chance of complications. I specifically asked him if it was possible that the chemoradiation would completely shrink the tumor and make surgery unnecessary. He told me that it was very unlikely that the tumor would completely disappear.
I went last week for a final MRI before surgery and I got the radiologist report and it states: "The tumor has disappeared and is undetectable. No adjacent lymph nodes involvement is detected".
So it seems that I may have beat the odds and could enter "Watch and Wait" treatment, getting MRI and blood work done every 3 months to monitor any recurrence.
I have an appointment with the surgeon Friday and I'm anxious to see what his response to the MRI will be. I bet he will still say surgery us needed. If he says that, I will get a second opinion from another surgeon. Another surgeon not in any way connected to my current surgeon or his hospital. I can't help but feeling that the surgeon has a financial stake in surgery that could effect his judgement.
When I first went to the corectal surgeon and he said that the chemoradiation treatment pre-surgery would hopefully shrink the tumor, making surgery easier and less chance of complications. I specifically asked him if it was possible that the chemoradiation would completely shrink the tumor and make surgery unnecessary. He told me that it was very unlikely that the tumor would completely disappear.
I went last week for a final MRI before surgery and I got the radiologist report and it states: "The tumor has disappeared and is undetectable. No adjacent lymph nodes involvement is detected".
So it seems that I may have beat the odds and could enter "Watch and Wait" treatment, getting MRI and blood work done every 3 months to monitor any recurrence.
I have an appointment with the surgeon Friday and I'm anxious to see what his response to the MRI will be. I bet he will still say surgery us needed. If he says that, I will get a second opinion from another surgeon. Another surgeon not in any way connected to my current surgeon or his hospital. I can't help but feeling that the surgeon has a financial stake in surgery that could effect his judgement.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:00 am to doublecutter
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I have rectal cancer and finished a 28 day treatment of chemoradiation four weeks ago. I'm scheduled for surgery on June 23. Robotic surgery that will require a temporary colonoscopy bag, with a planned reversal surgery about 8 weeks later.
My father had rectal cancer last summer and did 5 radiation treatments and 9 chemo treatments. Tumor is completely gone and doctors are baffled. They kept suggesting surgery at first and he told them no! No its is just a wait and see what happens. But months later and there is still nothing there.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:01 am to doublecutter
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doublecutter
Keep it up, man!
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:01 am to frequent flyer
Probably has ivermectin in it
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:02 am to doublecutter
I know that for example surgeons at mayo get paid the same surgery or no surgery.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:03 am to frequent flyer
Heard on radio $11K every 3 weeks for 6 months. Insurance ain't covering trial drugs I assume.
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