Posted on 12/09/2015 12:24:37 PM PST by dennisw
Researched and tested at Tel Hashomer Sheba Medical Center, Keytruda fights tumors using the bodyâs natural immune system
An Israeli-tested drug that tackles cancer through sophisticated manipulations of the bodyâs natural immune system was key in helping rid former US president Jimmy Carter of life-threatening tumors that developed after he was diagnosed with melanoma earlier this year.
Researched in Israel by Professor Jacob Schachter of the Ella Institute for melanoma treatment and research at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Keytruda is part of a promising new class of drugs called immunotherapies, which harness the bodyâs immune system to help fight cancer.
The US-based Merck pharmaceutical companyâs injectable biotech drug works by blocking a protein found in certain tumors called PD-1, which inhibits the bodyâs natural response to cancer cells.
Carter, 91, announced Sunday that doctors found no evidence of the four lesions discovered on his brain this summer and no signs of new cancer growth. He revealed in August that he had been diagnosed with melanoma and had begun treatment, including surgery to remove part of his liver, targeted radiation therapy and doses of a recently approved drug to help his immune system seek out any new cancer cells.
âI will continue to receive regular 3-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab,â he said. That drug goes by the name Keytruda commercially. This product image provided by Merck shows packaging for its Keytruda cancer drug. (AP Photo/Merck & Co., Inc.)
This product image provided by Merck shows packaging for its Keytruda cancer drug. (AP Photo/Merck & Co., Inc.)
âFor today, the news cannot be better,â said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. âCircumstances may change over time or he may be in a situation where it does not recur for many years or at all.â
Carter said he will continue to receive Keytruda every three weeks in order to prevent the growth of further tumors.
Melanoma specialists credit the drug for improving treatment of the disease without the side effects of traditional chemotherapy drugs that can cause hair loss and other symptoms, said Dr. Douglas Johnson, a melanoma specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center who is not involved with Carterâs treatment.
Since the Koran tells them “the life of this world is only a play and a pastime” (6:32, 57:20), what would motivate them to?
It could be he did have a mass in his liver, and the brain cancer was misdiagnosed. As far as I know, all the information is coming from Carter himself and not his doctors.
Jews save the Anti Semite.
Israilis do a lot for humanity but, I’m not so sure this time...
Lucky for Jimmy he didn’t have to try and find a doctor and hospital that would accept his Obamacare policy.
Could be, but he IS a cancer.
Jimmy Carter’s Cancer NOT Treated by Israeli Drug (Plus, it isn’t Cured)
Jewish Press ^ | 12/09/2015 | By:Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2015 2:56:20 PM by SeekAndFind
Hmmmm ..?? I was watching Cake Boss a week or so ago, and I noticed Buddy’s mom was there. I knew she made a trip to Israel .. to try some new drug .. but I hadn’t heard any more information about it.
Does anybody know .. did the drug work .. is she better .. or were the pictures possibly taken before she went to Israel ..??
Jimmy will live longer because of those Israeli Jews, but he will still hate Jews and Israel.
I’d hate to believe that ANYONE would fake having cancer, but a former beauty queen here in Pennsylvania was just indicted for it.
Persistent stories about how Jimmah would lease a private jet to fly from an airport on one side of Atlanta to the other just to show whomever he was meeting how important he was makes it plausible.
What a crying shame such a wonderful new medicine was wasted on this scumbag bigot
Lots of people have been saved by Jews. I myself was saved by One...
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