{"id":147220,"date":"2022-09-29T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-mans-cancer-vanished-after-he-was-injected-with-a-weakened-herpes-virus-in-a-promising-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:22:19","slug":"a-mans-cancer-vanished-after-he-was-injected-with-a-weakened-herpes-virus-in-a-promising-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-mans-cancer-vanished-after-he-was-injected-with-a-weakened-herpes-virus-in-a-promising-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"A man\u2019s cancer vanished after he was injected with a weakened herpes virus in a promising clinical trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mans-cancer-vanished-after-he-was-injected-with-a-weakened-herpes-virus-in-a-promising-clinical-trial.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new cancer therapy that uses a modified herpes virus to attack tumor cells showed promise in early clinical trials abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, called RP2, completely obliterated one patient\u2019s oral cancer. The 39-year-old told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-62833581\" rel=\"nofollow\"> BBC<\/a> that he had cancer of the salivary glands, which continued to grow despite attempts at treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He was preparing for the end of his life when he learned about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about-cancer\/treatment\/drugs\/access-experimental\" rel=\"nofollow\"> experimental drug<\/a>, which was available through a phase one safety trial at the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cancer therapy that uses a modified herpes virus to attack tumor cells showed promise in early clinical trials abroad. The drug, called RP2, completely obliterated one patient\u2019s oral cancer. The 39-year-old told the BBC that he had cancer of the salivary glands, which continued to grow despite attempts at treatment. He was preparing [\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-147220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147220","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=147220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}