A new drug is showing 'spectacular' results in patients with bladder cancer, which kills 5,000 people in Britain a year.
Doctors
are hailing the immunotherapy drug - known as an 'anti-PDL1' - as
potentially the biggest advance in the treatment of the disease in 30
years.
During
tests, the drug, given by intravenous drip, cleared all visible tumours
from two patients with advanced cancer in a matter of weeks. And it
shrank tumours in a quarter of patients treated - a success rate about
double that of much more toxic chemotherapy.
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