{"id":136514,"date":"2022-03-07T05:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/in-mice-a-potential-new-treatment-eradicates-ovarian-and-colorectal-cancer-in-days"},"modified":"2022-03-07T05:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T13:02:40","slug":"in-mice-a-potential-new-treatment-eradicates-ovarian-and-colorectal-cancer-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/in-mice-a-potential-new-treatment-eradicates-ovarian-and-colorectal-cancer-in-days","title":{"rendered":"In Mice, a Potential New Treatment Eradicates Ovarian And Colorectal Cancer in Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-mice-a-potential-new-treatment-eradicates-ovarian-and-colorectal-cancer-in-days3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental new type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a> treatment has yielded some impressive results in mice: the eradication of advanced-stage ovarian and colorectal cancer in the animals as little as six days.<\/p>\n<p>The new therapy has only been tested in mice so far, so let\u2019s not get too excited just yet. However, the early signs are promising, and human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/clinical-trials\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clinical trials\">clinical trials<\/a> could be underway by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment involves tiny \u2018drug factory\u2019 beads that are implanted into the body and deliver a continuous, high dose of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interleukin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interleukin-2<\/a> (IL2) \u2013 a natural compound that enlists white blood cells in the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental new type of cancer treatment has yielded some impressive results in mice: the eradication of advanced-stage ovarian and colorectal cancer in the animals as little as six days. The new therapy has only been tested in mice so far, so let\u2019s not get too excited just yet. However, the early signs are promising, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136514","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}