New “immunotherapy” drugs shrank bladder cancer tumours in half of the patients with advanced disease. And in seven per cent of cases the tumours -disappeared completely.
Every year 10,400 people in the UK are diagnosed with bladder cancer – the seventh most common cancer. It claimed 5,081 lives in 2011, and survival rates are worsening in England, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Urology.
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Scientists have failed to find a new treatment for almost three. In the research, sixty-eight patients took part with trials of “investigational immunotherapy MPDL3280A” through Cancer Research UK’s Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre.
Professor Peter Johnson, of CRUK said: “It’s exciting to see a potential new treatment for bladder cancer patients who have been waiting a long time for new therapies. The progress we’ve made in harnessing the body’s own immune system to fight cancer is an important step forward.
“Cancer can only grow by finding a way to escape detection by the immune system. One way is to trigger a shut-off switch on immune cells when they get close to the tumour.