Early Reports Back on Trials Focusing on Driving Mutations

August 20, 2015 | The brain cancer patient featured on the March cover of TIME is cancer-free, thanks to a clinical trial methodology researchers called a "basket trial". In a follow up article, TIME recounts her progress and Rather than group cancers by tissue of origin, the trial grouped 122 cancer patients by driving mutation, then tested drugs thought to target those mutations. For MaryAnn Anselmo, the results were astonishing. But for the rest of the trial the results were still encouraging. More than five different cancer types were included in her trial and many of those patients are seeing improvements. TIME