A Welsh woman recently witnessed something of a miracle when a new wonder medicine was prescribed by doctors and the cancer was entirely eliminated. Carrie Downey's stage three bowel cancer vanished six months after she started taking the medication dostarlimab, according to the BBC,
The 42-year-old government employee was given dostarlimab infusions for six months after being diagnosed a year before. According to tests, the disease has completely disappeared, Swansea Bay University Health Board reported in a press release.
Dostarlimab specifically targets a certain subtype of colorectal cancer. Even though it is still in the clinical trial stage, it is already producing impressive outcomes while avoiding surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.
Dostarlimab is an instance of immunotherapy, a focused therapy that aids the immune system in eliminating cancer.
Following a previous hernia mesh implant, Ms. Downey was experiencing pain. Her cancer was found by doctors during their examination. Her diagnosis came about a year ago.
She was referred to Swansea's Singleton Hospital's consultant oncologist, Dr. Craig Barrington. Dostarlimab was recommended by Dr. Barrington. She was prescribed Dostarlimab three times per week for six months, with each infusion requiring about 30 minutes.
Scans conducted halfway through her treatment revealed that the cancer had significantly decreased. There was no sign of the disease at the final stage of the therapy. This has been verified by two further scans, according to the release.
"I'm just so thankful to Dr Barrington and his team that I got the chance and that he had looked into the mutation and looking at these new therapies. He has given me my life back. I will be forever grateful to him," she told BBC.
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