A miracle drug clears a UK woman’s aggressive bowel cancer: report
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London: A UK woman’s aggressive cancer has been cleared from her body after six months of taking a new revolutionary drug.
Carrie Downey from Wales was administered new drug dostarlimab infusions for six months, which eventually showed no evidence of stage three bowel cancer, according to BBC.
The new drug dostarlimab helped her return to life after the civil servant was diagnosed positive for cancer a year ago, based on a news release by Swansea Bay University Health Board .
The 42-year-old was administered the drug that is designed to target ‘a specific variant of colorectal cancer’.
Though the drug is still being clinically trialled, it has shown remarkable results avoiding surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
Doctors discovered the condition while investigating her complains of pain from a previous hernia mesh implant.
Dr Craig Barrington, a consultant oncologist at Singleton Hospital in Swansea, prescribed her dostarlimab for six months, with each three-weekly IV administration for 30 minutes.
"I got tired and had a rash here and there, but nothing compared to chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery,” she was quoted as saying.
As the treatment progressed, scans showed the turmour shrinking significantly before it vanished, it is confirmed.
The single mother of a 17-year-old son thanked Dr Barrington and his team and is getting ready to return to work.
The same drug in last year helped cure rectal cancer of 18 patients after six months of taking it, according to the report.