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29/01/24

New clinical trial results suggest chemotherapy drug may help with recurrent or advanced Chordoma

A team of researchers in the U.S. has reported encouraging results from a pilot study testing the chemotherapy drug pemetrexed (Alimta) for patients with recurrent or advanced chordoma. Of the 14 patients on the trial, 10 had their tumors stabilize or shrink (two had their tumors shrink by more than 30%), and the majority of the patients experienced symptomatic improvements. 

This data suggesting that pemetrexed can control or even shrink some chordoma tumors and improve patients’ quality of life is deeply encouraging, but the results need to be validated in more patients before pemetrexed becomes a standard treatment for chordoma. 

Read more about the study. 

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