{"id":151948,"date":"2022-12-05T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/most-effective-treatment-yet-new-radioactive-tumor-implant-obliterates-pancreatic-cancer"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:23:55","slug":"most-effective-treatment-yet-new-radioactive-tumor-implant-obliterates-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/most-effective-treatment-yet-new-radioactive-tumor-implant-obliterates-pancreatic-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Most Effective Treatment Yet: New Radioactive Tumor Implant Obliterates Pancreatic Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-effective-treatment-yet-new-radioactive-tumor-implant-obliterates-pancreatic-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/duke-university\/amp\/>Duke University<\/a> biomedical engineers have demonstrated the most effective pancreatic cancer treatment yet recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider just stopping growth to be a success, the new treatment fully eliminated tumors in 80% of mice across many model types, including those considered to be the most difficult to treat.<\/p>\n<p>The approach combines traditional chemotherapy drugs with a new method for irradiating the tumor. The treatment implants radioactive iodine-131 directly into the tumor inside a gel-like depot that protects healthy tissue and is absorbed by the body once the radiation fades, as opposed to administering radiation from an external beam that passes through healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The study was recently published in the journal <em>Nature Biomedical Engineering<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke University biomedical engineers have demonstrated the most effective pancreatic cancer treatment yet recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider just stopping growth to be a success, the new treatment fully eliminated tumors in 80% of mice across many model types, including those considered to be the most difficult to treat. The approach [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151948","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}