{"id":151103,"date":"2022-11-25T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/zapping-brain-cancer-with-long-needles-opens-door-to-new-treatments"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:24:49","slug":"zapping-brain-cancer-with-long-needles-opens-door-to-new-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/zapping-brain-cancer-with-long-needles-opens-door-to-new-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Zapping brain cancer with long needles opens door to new treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zapping-brain-cancer-with-long-needles-opens-door-to-new-treatments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have developed a new method of killing brain cancer cells while preserving the delicate tissue around it. The technique also has a remarkable side-benefit: making chemotherapy treatment of brain cancer suddenly possible.<\/p>\n<p>The technique involves placing long needles through the skull and sending pulses of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/electrical+current\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical current<\/a> into a glioblastoma tumor\u2014the pernicious variety of brain cancer that caused Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA safer and more effective cancer treatment may be clinically possible,\u201d said Dr. Mike Moser (MD), USask College of Medicine general surgery researcher and co-author of a study published recently in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have developed a new method of killing brain cancer cells while preserving the delicate tissue around it. The technique also has a remarkable side-benefit: making chemotherapy treatment of brain cancer suddenly possible. The technique involves placing long needles through the skull and sending pulses of electrical current into a glioblastoma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151103","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}