Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Breakthrough is a word cancer researchers dont use lightly, but tonight it is exactly the word being used by the government about a new drug that has produced remarkable results against a form of cancer usually considered a death sentence. Including for former president jimmy carter who was treated for advanced melanoma with the drug and announced late last year he was cancerfree. It is part of a new class of drugs that can save potentially those suffering other cancers as well. Reporter former president jimmy carter is living proof of the promise of targeted cancer therapies. I want to be a person that loves other people. Reporter today blockbuster news about the drug carter took for advanced melanoma, changing the prognosis for this all too fatal disease. A new study says 40 of advanced melanoma patients were alive three years after taking it
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