{"id":107926,"date":"2020-05-31T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/sylvester-miami-cancer-institute-studying-stem-cells-cancer-drugs-to-treat-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-05-31T03:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:25:38","slug":"sylvester-miami-cancer-institute-studying-stem-cells-cancer-drugs-to-treat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/sylvester-miami-cancer-institute-studying-stem-cells-cancer-drugs-to-treat-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester, Miami Cancer Institute studying stem cells, cancer drugs to treat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sylvester-miami-cancer-institute-studying-stem-cells-cancer-drugs-to-treat-covid-193.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With more and more people contracting COVID-19, physician-scientists around the world are looking at existing drugs as potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are cancer researchers launching new clinical trials or participating in multi-site ones to see whether drugs proven to be effective for another disease, particularly cancer, can help in treating COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>At Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, researchers are conducting several trials to investigate whether existing cancer drugs might provide some kind of therapy for COVID-19. The rationale: Cancer patients have similar immune system problems as coronavirus patients \u2014 namely, dangerous inflammation \u2014 and these medications effectively attack that problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more and more people contracting COVID-19, physician-scientists around the world are looking at existing drugs as potential treatments for the novel coronavirus. Among them are cancer researchers launching new clinical trials or participating in multi-site ones to see whether drugs proven to be effective for another disease, particularly cancer, can help in treating COVID-19 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}