Cancer is eradicated in all patients for the first time during a US drug trial
A small-scale trial of a cancer treatment drug demonstrated complete success in removing tumors also preventing recurrence in patients. According to news , this is the first time in medical history.
Cancer, a dreaded disease feared for the sheer number of lives it claims, may soon be eradicated from the world. For the first time, also a drug test at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York, demonstrated complete cancer eradication.
The trial, albeit on a small scale, has raised hopes that cancer can be eradicated without the need for lengthy and painful chemotherapy sessions or surgeries.
CANCER STATS AROUND THE WORLD
The results were “astonishing,” bringing hope to billions around the world. The WHO calculations that nearly 10 million people will die in 2020. Cancer was responsible for almost one out of every six deaths.
In 2020, breast cancer accounted for the majority of new cases (2.26 million), with lung cancer a close second (2.21 million), followed by a colon also rectal cancer patients (1.93 million). If larger-scale trials yield similar results, we may be on our way to a cancer-free world.
In a recent paper issued in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Luis A Diaz Jr of the Memorial Kettering Cancer Center stated that he was not aware of any other study in which a medicine “completely obliterated cancer. In every patient.” “I believe this is the 1st time this has happened in cancer history,” said Dr. Diaz.
Dr. Alan P Venook, a colorectal cancer expert at the University of California, also San Francisco, who was not part of the introspection’s team, stated that this was a first. “It’s unheard of to have a complete remission in every patient,” he said.
