{"id":129015,"date":"2021-10-15T00:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-hot-needle-that-zaps-lung-cancer-in-just-30-minutes"},"modified":"2021-10-15T00:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:23:17","slug":"the-hot-needle-that-zaps-lung-cancer-in-just-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-hot-needle-that-zaps-lung-cancer-in-just-30-minutes","title":{"rendered":"The hot needle that zaps lung cancer in just 30 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/05\/01\/484970195721696821\/1024x576_MP4_484970195721696821.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018 #fuckcancer #zap #it #laser #cancerfree<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A pioneering two-in-one lung cancer treatment is being used to both diagnose and destroy hard-to-reach tumours in just half an hour \u2013 allowing thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8fe3e450-eab4-11e8-8ba5-05179867dd10\">NHS<\/a> patients to avoid the need for invasive, life-changing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors zap the tumour with a hot needle \u2013 a treatment called radiofrequency ablation \u2013 and at the same time carry out a biopsy, where a tiny piece of the cancer is removed for testing to see whether it is aggressive and likely to have spread.<\/p>\n<p>Most lung-cancer patients currently undergo repeat procedures to have a tiny piece of the tumour cut out for examination (a biopsy), followed by radiotherapy or more surgery to remove the cancerous tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 #fuckcancer #zap #it #laser #cancerfree A pioneering two-in-one lung cancer treatment is being used to both diagnose and destroy hard-to-reach tumours in just half an hour \u2013 allowing thousands of NHS patients to avoid the need for invasive, life-changing surgery. Doctors zap the tumour with a hot needle \u2013 a treatment called radiofrequency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129015","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}