India's cancer growth rates are among the global highest, as per the Cancer Statistics report. Cancer cases increased at an average annual rate of 1.1-2 per cent from 2010-2019. As the world grapples with the burden of the dreaded ‘C’ word, the news of a drug trial having miraculously removed tumors from a few patients who took a drug called Dostarlimab bought some ray of hope. It was a small clinical trial where patients with rectal cancer were put on immunotherapy for 6 months. Now this brings us to the question if we can finally hope for a cancer treatment for all cancers? Is the cancer cure near or will we still have to wait before the cure reaches all? We spoke to leading oncologists from the country to know their thoughts on the new trial…
Dr. Sajan Rajpurohit, Director - Medical Oncology at BLK Max Super Speciality Hospital
