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Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong.

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Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong.
By Gina Kolata/ Health/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com

No one expected the four young women to live much longer. They had an extremely rare, aggressive and fatal form of ovarian cancer. There was no standard treatment.

The women, strangers to one another living in different countries, asked their doctors to try new immunotherapy drugs that had revolutionized treatment of cancer. At first, they were told the drugs were out of the question — they would not work against ovarian cancer.

Now it looks as if the doctors were wrong. The women managed to get immunotherapy, and their cancers went into remission. They returned to work; their lives returned to normalcy.

The tale has befuddled scientists, who are struggling to understand why the drugs worked when they should not have. If researchers can figure out what happened here, they may open the door to new treatments for a wide variety of other cancers thought not to respond to immunotherapy.

“What we are seeing here is that we have not yet learned the whole story of what it takes for tumors to be recognized by the immune system,” said Dr. Jedd Wolchok, chief of the melanoma and immunotherapeutics service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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Oriana Sousa, 28, who lives in Marinha Grande, Portugal, had a rare, aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Traditional treatments failed, but with immunotherapy her tumors shrank so much that there is no evidence of disease. Credit Daniel Rodrigues for The New York Times

The article author, Gina Kolata is the same author mentioned in this previous Tug thread about the 1918 Flu Pandemic: https://www.tugbbs.com/forums/index.php?threads/the-1918-flu-pandemic.268944/#post-2098850


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So many advances in cancer I have been on Imbruvica for over 8 yrs and still haven't had to take IV chemo. (Thank GOD)OF course
I tell people I'm to mean to die. Last year I was in the hospital at this time . I still get tired easily , but that's OK> shaggy
 

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My mother-in-law was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and is currently undergoing immunotherapy. We are hoping it works!
 
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