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Re: pembrolizumab

Shame no one heard of it '
It's had quite a lot of good reports on UK television and newspapers. It's an immunotherapy drug that's had excellent results on lung cancer and melanomas
Now on prostate cancer that has stopped responding to all other treatments.
Men with otherwise untreatable prostate cancer can benefit from an immune system-stimulating treatment which could help prolong their life, or even stop their cancer growth entirely, a UK trial has found.

Re: pembrolizumab

Al,
I suspect you haven't heard anything because pembrolizumab is not a common treatment (yet) for PCa.
This immunotherapy -- more commonly known as Keytruda-- is more commonly used on lung cancer if chemo fails. The trouble I see with Keytruda is that it costs about $150,000 for a year's treatment and it seems to be effective in less than 20% of the time. I read somewhere that in PCa it was less than 10%. I think in 10-20 years immunotherapy will be more effective and less costly, but for now it just isn't.

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