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Are there numbers that say what the success rate of immuni therapy is?

• hanspragt 8y ago
  It sort of depends on what you define as success. The goal was never to "cure" the cancer, rather, to shrink the tumor. I hesitate to assign an exact percentage to the effectiveness since there are so many factors to consider, but I remember Keytruda being reported to shrink tumors in less than a third of patients who took it.
  • iooi 8y ago
    The goal is to cure, from the article, quoting the head of lung at Yale: > “Chemotherapy has limitations. Immunotherapy has the ability to cure. I lead the Yale lung team. We have patients on these immunotherapies alive more than eight years.”
    • hanspragt 8y ago
      I am sorry, that wasn't clear; That was the goal in the specific case of my family-member. The tumors would never fully disappear, and he would likely need more treatments later on.