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DC Cancer Patient Among 18 In Remission After Miraculous Drug Trial
More than 15 rectal cancer patients who participated in a drug trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are in remission. The first patient to try the drug was Washington DC's Sascha Roth, who got the good news on a Friday evening just four weeks before she was scheduled to undergo weeks of radiation therapy. More than a dozen others would soon receive the good news. The MSK clinical trial was investigating if immunotherapy alone could beat rectal cancer that had not spread to other tissues, in a subset of patients whose tumor contained a specific genetic mutation, the hospital sai…