First complete remission of aggressive pituitary cancer achieved via immunotherapy

Patient experienced vision loss and double vision from tumor progression before achieving complete remission through immunotherapy.

At the University of Cincinnati, a patient facing hospice after exhausting every conventional treatment for an aggressive pituitary tumor has achieved something medicine had never before recorded — complete remission, guided not by chance but by reading the tumor's own genetic code. By sequencing the cancer's DNA, researchers identified a specific mutation that made it vulnerable to immunotherapy, a class of drugs long proven in other cancers but never successfully deployed here. This case, now joined by three others worldwide, suggests that the long-standing assumption of pituitary cancer's i

First complete remission of aggressive pituitary cancer achieved via immunotherapy

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