At City of Hope Cancer Center Arizona, Dr. Arjun Gupta has been watching something rare happen in pancreatic cancer care — patients who once had no options are unexpectedly responding to a new pill.
“People who were bed-bound, screaming in pain, are now running around like schoolboys,” he said.
Dr. Gupta is describing the first local patients who have receiving daraxonrasib, a treatment that’s nearly doubling survival for stage-4 pancreatic cancer…