{"id":149044,"date":"2022-10-28T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/experimental-flash-cancer-treatment-aces-first-human-trial"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:22:33","slug":"experimental-flash-cancer-treatment-aces-first-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/experimental-flash-cancer-treatment-aces-first-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"Experimental \u201cFLASH\u201d cancer treatment aces first human trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-flash-cancer-treatment-aces-first-human-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/ct2\/show\/NCT04592887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first-in-human trial<\/a> of FLASH radiotherapy found the experimental treatment to be safe and effective \u2014 suggesting that there may be a faster, less painful way to use radiation against cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The status quo:<\/strong> Radiation therapy is a common cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells. Usually, this is done by aiming a beam of radiation directly at a tumor for a few minutes. This part of the process is painless, like getting an X-ray.<\/p>\n<p>Patients typically undergo daily treatments five days a week for several weeks, and including setup time, a treatment usually takes about 15 to 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-in-human trial of FLASH radiotherapy found the experimental treatment to be safe and effective \u2014 suggesting that there may be a faster, less painful way to use radiation against cancer. The status quo: Radiation therapy is a common cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill or slow the growth of cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149044","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}