{"id":155816,"date":"2023-01-19T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/bowel-cancer-breakthrough-as-chemotherapy-before-surgery-cuts-risk-of-return"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:23:00","slug":"bowel-cancer-breakthrough-as-chemotherapy-before-surgery-cuts-risk-of-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/bowel-cancer-breakthrough-as-chemotherapy-before-surgery-cuts-risk-of-return","title":{"rendered":"Bowel cancer breakthrough as chemotherapy before surgery \u2018cuts risk of return\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bowel-cancer-breakthrough-as-chemotherapy-before-surgery-cuts-risk-of-return.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are around 42,900 new bowel cancer cases in the UK every year Experts have hailed \u201cremarkable\u201d new research which shows that giving chemotherapy before surgery for early-stage bowel cancer cuts the chance of the disease coming back by 28%. The study, funded by Cancer Research UK, suggests at least 5,000 patients in the UK every year could benefit from a tweak to how they receive chemotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are around 42,900 new bowel cancer cases in the UK every year Experts have hailed \u201cremarkable\u201d new research which shows that giving chemotherapy before surgery for early-stage bowel cancer cuts the chance of the disease coming back by 28%. The study, funded by Cancer Research UK, suggests at least 5,000 patients in the UK [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155816","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=155816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}