{"id":148060,"date":"2022-10-13T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/do-you-have-the-ptch1-mutation"},"modified":"2022-10-13T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T06:22:36","slug":"do-you-have-the-ptch1-mutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/do-you-have-the-ptch1-mutation","title":{"rendered":"Do you have the PTCH1 Mutation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYs1jb-CkY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our cells change over our lifespan and while some of the changes are necessary and beneficial to our body, sometimes they change in a dangerous and life-threatening way.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what type of cancer mutation you have is one of the best things you can do to narrow down treatment plans and eligibility for clinical trials. A great way to do that is to get Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) testing done.<\/p>\n<p>NGS Testing is a simple procedure that requires blood work, a tissue sample, or both. The test is often encouraged in advanced cancer patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cells change over our lifespan and while some of the changes are necessary and beneficial to our body, sometimes they change in a dangerous and life-threatening way. Knowing what type of cancer mutation you have is one of the best things you can do to narrow down treatment plans and eligibility for clinical trials. [\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-148060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148060","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=148060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}