{"id":150428,"date":"2022-11-17T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/im-just-carrying-on-vaccine-gives-brain-cancer-patient-years-of-extra-life"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:22:22","slug":"im-just-carrying-on-vaccine-gives-brain-cancer-patient-years-of-extra-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/im-just-carrying-on-vaccine-gives-brain-cancer-patient-years-of-extra-life","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m just carrying on\u2019: vaccine gives brain cancer patient years of extra life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/im-just-carrying-on-vaccine-gives-brain-cancer-patient-years-of-extra-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>I<\/b>t\u2019s been seven years since Nigel French was woken up in the middle of the night by his wife after having a seizure, which came out of the blue after experiencing a mild headache \u2013 something he had simply put down to blocked sinuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me that the ambulance had arrived and I was like: \u2018what ambulance?\u2019\u201d recalls French, 53, a mechanic who was diagnosed with glioblastoma that required urgent surgery, without which he would have had only months to live.<\/p>\n<p>In a different scenario, the impact of one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer would have taken its toll by now, but thanks to a revolutionary vaccine, he is not only still alive but continuing to work and enjoy all that life has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been seven years since Nigel French was woken up in the middle of the night by his wife after having a seizure, which came out of the blue after experiencing a mild headache \u2013 something he had simply put down to blocked sinuses. \u201cShe told me that the ambulance had arrived and I was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150428","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=150428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}