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A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient (Published 2022) (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by daitya to c/health

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The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with rectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.”

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[–] daitya 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was published one year ago, and I wonder if there have been followup trials since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like this drug has multiple on going trials. Here is a phase II/III trial ongoing that's probably the direct successor to the trial in the article. It's currently recruiting, they expect to be done some time in 2025.

https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05723562

Clinicaltrials.gov makes it really easy to find pretty much any trial.