{"id":131700,"date":"2021-12-03T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/preventing-cancer-metastatis"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:23:48","slug":"preventing-cancer-metastatis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/preventing-cancer-metastatis","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Cancer Metastatis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/preventing-cancer-metastatis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/29\/new-cancer-therapy-yibin-kangs-lab-holds-potential-switch-major-cancer-types\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancer biologist Yibin Kang has disabled a key cancer gene MTDH in mice and in human tissue. A human treatment will be ready for human trials in a few years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could be the key to preventing or stopping cancer metastasis which is the primary cause of death due to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>99% of breast cancer patients survive five years after diagnosis, only 29% do if the cancer has metastasized, according to current numbers from the National Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer biologist Yibin Kang has disabled a key cancer gene MTDH in mice and in human tissue. A human treatment will be ready for human trials in a few years. This could be the key to preventing or stopping cancer metastasis which is the primary cause of death due to cancer. 99% of breast cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131700","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}