Former president Jimmy Carter no longer needs treatment for the metastatic melanoma that spread to both his liver and brain. His miraculous recovery is thanks to a drug called Keytruda, one of a group of new drugs that centers on treatment called immunotherapy.
These drugs use an individual’s own immune system to fight off cancer—in Carter’s case, melanoma, which kills an estimated 10,000 Americans each year. Keytruda is a treatment that some have referred to as the “golden age of chemotherapy drugs” and a “miracle cure.”
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