A new drug is showing ‘spectacular’ results in a small-scale trial of patients with bladder cancer, says a [s]Daily Mail[/s] report. 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.
[link url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2644885/Drugs-spectacular-success-offers-new-hope-bladder-cancer-patients-doctors-hailing-biggest-advance-30-years.html]Full Daily Mail report[/link]
[link url=http://meetinglibrary.asco.org/content/128838-144]ASCO abstract[/link]