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RSS FeedsImmunotherapy prior to surgery is effective in colon cancer
(WorldNews Health)

 
 

6 april 2020 19:04:12

 
Immunotherapy prior to surgery is effective in colon cancer
(WorldNews Health)
 


Patients with colon cancer, but no distant metastases yet, can benefit from a short course of immunotherapy while waiting for their surgery,as it can cause tumours to shrink substantially or clear up in a very short time.The patient`s own immune cells have cleared away the cancer cells. This is the finding of a NICHE study by the Netherlands Cancer Institute, an innovatory phase II clinical trial.In patients with a specific subtype of colon cancer (MSI) 100%of the patients benefited from the therapy. In the other half (with MSS type) this was 25%. Medical oncologist Myriam Chalabi and her fellow researchers will publish these results on Monday 6 April in the journal Nature Medicine. Myriam...


 
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