DOSTARLIMAB
- Dostarlimab is an monoclonal antibody drug .
- 18 rectal cancer patients who received dostalimab drug have completely been cure
- They received prescribed doses for six months.
- The clinical trial consisted of a group of 18 patients and surprisingly all of them were cured using the drug
- They were all battling rectal cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan , US
- The cancer was locally advanced meaning the tumors were already spread within the rectum and to the regional lymph nodes but not to other organs
Those patients that were part of the study were already undergone previous treatments to manage their cancer which includes chemotherapy, radiation, and invasive surgery.After the trial, they did not have to take painful chemotherapy and radiation sessions now.The good thing is that it showed a complete absence of significant post treatment complications as well any signs of recurrence of cancer in the patients until 25 months from the end of trial.
The study was sponsored by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline.