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Swim Across America grant funding of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center clinical trial shows that immunotherapy alone could replace surgery, enabling patients to regain their organs and enhance their quality of life

The promising study found that 80% of patients with mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd) solid tumors treated with immunotherapy avoided surgery

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Swim Across America

Dr. Diaz Speaking

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Andrea Cercek, MD, (center) and Luis Diaz Jr., MD, (right), along with one of their colleagues, at a recent Swim Across America - Long Island Sound open water swim. Swim Across America has helped fund their groundbreaking clinical trials to show the success of using immunotherapy for MMRd cancers.

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Credit: Swim Across America - Long Island Sound

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