{"id":150537,"date":"2022-11-19T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-revolutionary-robotic-technology-helps-both-treat-and-prevent-lung-cancer-in-one-shot"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:25:39","slug":"new-revolutionary-robotic-technology-helps-both-treat-and-prevent-lung-cancer-in-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-revolutionary-robotic-technology-helps-both-treat-and-prevent-lung-cancer-in-one-shot","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018revolutionary\u2019 robotic technology helps both treat and prevent lung cancer in one shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-revolutionary-robotic-technology-helps-both-treat-and-prevent-lung-cancer-in-one-shot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The patients wake up from anaesthesia with the cancer treated.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new robotic technology that finds lung cancer early and also has the ability to treat it at the same time, according to a report by CBS Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The American Lung Association\u2019s annual report revealed that lung cancer survival rates are on the rise thanks partially to this new technology. The five-year survival rate is now estimated at 25%.<\/p>\n<p>One example of this success is Kathleen McGinn, who found her cancer early and treated it with the new robotic procedure. \u201cI\u2019m very optimistic for my future,\u201d McGinn told CBS.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re up to 25% survival at five years, which is significantly up from the 17% survival in 2015. We attribute most of this to early detection, better treatments and systemic therapies for patients who have lung cancer that spread to other parts of the body,\u201d said Dr. Bobby Mahajan with the American Lung Association said.<\/p>\n<p>Patients who never smoked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-revolutionary-robotic-technology-helps-both-treat-and-prevent-lung-cancer-in-one-shot\">Continue reading \u201cNew \u2018revolutionary\u2019 robotic technology helps both treat and prevent lung cancer in one shot\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patients wake up from anaesthesia with the cancer treated. There\u2019s a new robotic technology that finds lung cancer early and also has the ability to treat it at the same time, according to a report by CBS Philadelphia. The American Lung Association\u2019s annual report revealed that lung cancer survival rates are on the rise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150537","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}