Has been a while since hearing good news like this. I hope it doesn’t end up being a case of jumping the gun.

If Ipilimumab proves to be a wonder drug, surely it will be a template to curing all other cancers.

First human trials of prostate cancer drug shock doctors

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota announced on Saturday details surrounding the first human trials of a prostate cancer drug called Ipilimumab.

In their initial results, the doctors said, two men who were expected to die made dramatic recoveries after just a single dose.

The doctors said that once surgery began on their first subject, there was a question as to whether they had the right patient because the cancer was so hard to find. What was once an inoperable tumor shrank so dramatically that doctors were able to operate and remove the growth.

They did add one bit of caution: While the first human trials of Ipilimumab yielded wildly successful results, both men had undergone hormone therapy which can, in some cases, shrink the tumors by itself. Nevertheless, added Dr. Eugene Kwon, “These were patients for whom there was no hope. The course of their disease has been altered in a dramatic fashion. … [But] we have to complete our studies.”

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