Doctors hail cancer injection that can destroy entire tumors

Doctors are celebrating the “unprecedented” trial results of a cancer treatment that's managed to eliminate tumors in some patients who have proven resistant to other treatments . The injection , called amivantamab and developed by Johnson & Johnson, was tested in an 11-nation clinical trial in which it was administered to patients whose cancer had either spread or returned after other treatments failed.

Doctors hail cancer injection that can destroy entire tumors. Doctors are celebrating the “unprecedented” trial results of a cancer treatment that's managed to eliminate tumors in some patients who have proven resistant to other treatments . The injection , called amivantamab and developed by Johnson & Johnson, was tested in an 11-nation clinical trial in which it was administered to patients whose cancer had either spread or returned after other treatments failed. Tumors shrank in more than a third of patients, with notable changes recorded only weeks after it was administered. In 15 patients, doctors reported that the injection had eradicated their tumors. “These are unprecedentedly strong responses in patients whose disease has become resistant to both chemotherapy and immunotherapy," Kevin Harrington, professor in biological cancer th...