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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 percentag
by 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 agoThe 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 agoI 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.