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In what researchers have described as an "unprecedented" result, a new medicine that treats locally advanced rectal cancer has fully removed tumours in all 42 patients who participated in the Phase II study. The drug, Jemperli , had earlier shown great potential for curing mismatch repair deficient cancers, which make up 5-10% of colorectal cancers.
Dr Luis Diaz Jr said that after preliminary trial research showed how effective this drug was at targeting cancer, “We wanted to see if we could make a tumour with the MMR mutation recede and eventually disappear using only immunotherapy to spare patients these life-altering consequences of standard treatment.
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