An experimental treatment may have just given a 3-year-old boy with advanced liver cancer a new lease on life.
Doctors at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas and others detailed the near-miraculous turn of events in a report earlier this month. The boy’s metastatic cancer went into complete remission after receiving a novel form of immunotherapy—a remission that has lasted for at least a year. He’s part of an ongoing phase I trial that will test the treatment on dozens of other similar patients.
“This case shows that a durable complete remission in a patient with a chemotherapy-resistant solid tumor can be achieved entirely in the outpatient setting without systemic toxic effects,” the authors wrote in their paper, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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