The claims

Sascha Roth, the first patient in a Memorial Sloan Kettering trial of the immunotherapy drug dostarlimab, was packing for radiation when her doctor called to say there was no cancer left to treat; every one of the 12 patients with a specific genetic subtype of rectal cancer reached a complete clinical response, a result one investigator called the first of its kind in the history of cancer — and the mechanism behind it is fully understood, which is exactly why the case belongs here.

A 34-year-old French woman with clinically confirmed multiple sclerosis recovered completely after bathing at Lourdes in May 1952, with the cure recognized as miraculous in 1956 after a four-year follow-up confirmed no relapse.

A four-year-old Baltimore girl diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — then uniformly fatal — experienced complete remission in 1952, verified by a decade of bone marrow tests and accepted by the Vatican as a miracle for the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton.

An Italian woman with Primary Lateral Sclerosis — a rare, incurable, progressive motor neuron disease — recovered completely during a 2009 Lourdes pilgrimage, recognized as the 72nd Lourdes miracle on April 16, 2025.

A woman diagnosed with severe multiple sclerosis at age 15, admitted to hospice in 1978, reported an instantaneous and complete recovery on June 7, 1981, with post-healing physician notes confirming absence of all prior MS findings.

An American deacon-in-training nearly paralyzed by spinal stenosis recovered suddenly after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman — the first miracle recognized toward Newman's canonization.

A 12-year-old Sicilian girl diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma of the knee — told she had six months to live — traveled to Lourdes in 1976 with no improvement, then recovered completely a few months later without treatment.

An Italian farmer given months to live with advanced Hodgkin's disease rose from his stretcher after immersion in the Lourdes baths in June 1950 and was declared completely well within three days.

A French woman who had undergone thirteen surgeries over eleven years for tubercular peritonitis, semi-comatose on arrival, awoke and recovered completely at a Lourdes procession in October 1948.

A randomized controlled trial of 93 men with biopsy-confirmed prostate cancer found that an intensive lifestyle intervention (vegan diet, exercise, meditation) significantly reduced PSA levels and inhibited cancer cell growth without conventional treatment.

A French Franciscan nun with nearly 50 years of cauda equina syndrome — spinal nerve compression causing chronic paraplegia — recovered completely during a 2008 Lourdes pilgrimage, recognized as the 70th miracle in 2018.

A French nun with rapidly advancing Parkinson's disease wrote legibly and was free of symptoms overnight after her congregation prayed to the recently deceased John Paul II.

Medical literature documents over 1,000 confirmed cases of spontaneous regression of advanced cancer without curative treatment — a real, reproducible phenomenon occurring in roughly 1-in-60,000 to 1-in-100,000 cancer patients that remains incompletely explained.

An 80-year-old heavy smoker diagnosed with limited-stage small cell lung cancer who refused all treatment experienced complete radiological disappearance of the tumor 52 months later, documented in a peer-reviewed case report.

Augustine personally witnessed and documented the healing of Paulus, a Cappadocian man afflicted with convulsions, at the shrine of St. Stephen in Hippo c. 425 CE, and days later the healing of his sister Palladia at the same altar.