{"id":140179,"date":"2022-06-05T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-think-they-have-found-a-major-cure-the-first-time-this-has-happened-in-the-history-of-cancer"},"modified":"2022-06-05T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:02:43","slug":"scientists-think-they-have-found-a-major-cure-the-first-time-this-has-happened-in-the-history-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-think-they-have-found-a-major-cure-the-first-time-this-has-happened-in-the-history-of-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists think they have found a major cure: \u2018The first time this has happened in the history of cancer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-they-have-found-a-major-cure-the-first-time-this-has-happened-in-the-history-of-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2201445\">findings were published<\/a> in the New England Journal of Medicine on Sunday that found all rectal cancer patients given a certain bill were cancer-free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/05\/health\/rectal-cancer-checkpoint-inhibitor.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reported<\/a> the findings, noting that the sample size was incredibly small, with just 18 people but the results were unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,\u201d said Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Sunday that found all rectal cancer patients given a certain bill were cancer-free. The New York Times reported the findings, noting that the sample size was incredibly small, with just 18 people but the results were unbelievable. \u201cI believe this is the first [\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-140179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140179","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=140179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}