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- Title
Cancer: A most exceptional response.
- Authors
Marx, Vivien
- Abstract
The article discusses the Exceptional Responders Initiative (ERI) which considers a drug response exceptional when a tumour disappears or when a patients shows an exceptional response to treatment and lives longer than 90% of others who were treated similarly. Topics discussed include the case of Patient X whose tumour completely disappeared after being treated with a drug originally approved to treat other tumour types and the challenges faced by ERI which is in a pilot phase, such as time.
- Subjects
TUMORS; PATIENTS; PATHOLOGY; CANCER; DRUGS
- Publication
Nature, 2015, Vol 520, Issue 7547, p389
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/520389a