Experimental drugs give new hope to blood cancer patients


By AGENCY
Over 90% of blood cancer patients at Christie NHS Foundation Trust who have run out of treatment options have been seeing great results with experimental drugs in clinical trials. — dpa

Groundbreaking cancer trials are producing ”incredibly impressive” results, with seriously ill people going into remission for months and years, a leading hospital in the United Kingdom has announced.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in the English city of Manchester said its experimental work into blood cancers such as myeloma is seeing the vast majority of patients responding to treatment.

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