{"id":38669,"date":"2022-06-06T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rare-biomarker-leads-to-unprecedented-results-in-small-rectal-cancer-study-endpoints-news\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:49:05","slug":"rare-biomarker-leads-to-unprecedented-results-in-small-rectal-cancer-study-endpoints-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rare-biomarker-leads-to-unprecedented-results-in-small-rectal-cancer-study-endpoints-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare biomarker leads to ‘unprecedented’ results in small rectal cancer study – Endpoints News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an ongoing, 18-person study, every single patient that has completed treatment saw their rectal cancer completely disappear.<\/p>\n

None of them needed chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery – the combination that makes up the standard of care for rectal cancer.<\/p>\n

Instead, the patients were treated with a six-month course of dostarlimab, the PD-1 antibody marketed as Jemperli that GSK acquired when it bought Tesaro in 2018. The prerequisite for receiving Jemperli, however, was that patients had early-stage, localized rectal cancer with a rare biomarker known as mismatch repair-deficient (MMR-deficient).<\/p>\n

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