{"id":138646,"date":"2022-04-25T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-discover-how-salt-in-tumors-could-help-diagnose-and-treat-breast-cancer"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:02:18","slug":"scientists-discover-how-salt-in-tumors-could-help-diagnose-and-treat-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-discover-how-salt-in-tumors-could-help-diagnose-and-treat-breast-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how salt in tumors could help diagnose and treat breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-salt-in-tumors-could-help-diagnose-and-treat-breast-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analyzing sodium levels in breast cancer tumors can give an accurate indication of how aggressive a cancer is and whether chemotherapy treatments are taking effect, new research has shown.<\/p>\n<p>In a study, by the universities of York and Cambridge and funded by charities Cancer Research UK and Breast Cancer Now, researchers developed a technique using sodium <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/magnetic+resonance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic resonance<\/a> imaging (MRI) to detect salt levels in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/breast+cancer+tumors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">breast cancer tumors<\/a> in mice.<\/p>\n<p>Using this technique, the researchers looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/breast+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">breast cancer<\/a> tumors and discovered that salt (sodium) was being accumulated inside <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer cells<\/a> and that more active tumors accumulate more sodium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyzing sodium levels in breast cancer tumors can give an accurate indication of how aggressive a cancer is and whether chemotherapy treatments are taking effect, new research has shown. In a study, by the universities of York and Cambridge and funded by charities Cancer Research UK and Breast Cancer Now, researchers developed a technique using [\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-138646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138646","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=138646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}