Indeed the class of immunological drugs look like they could be a game changer at some point in the future.
However the question is around the use of the term for this specific drug right now.
However the question is around the use of the term for this specific drug right now.
In the field, immunological drugs have given investigators hope that we know that cancer is able to be cured and we now just have to figure out the best way to do it - in the past we really didn’t have an approach that had a chance of making cancer a curable disease. Sure there were some approaches that might work on some cancers or some approaches that would hold the cancer at bay for a time, but nothing that gave hope of general cure.
To put it more succinctly, terminal is no longer terminal.