{"id":167868,"date":"2023-07-19T22:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/lab-results-from-pet-dogs-confirm-promise-of-new-immunotherapy-gel-for-kids-cancer"},"modified":"2023-07-19T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:25:10","slug":"lab-results-from-pet-dogs-confirm-promise-of-new-immunotherapy-gel-for-kids-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/lab-results-from-pet-dogs-confirm-promise-of-new-immunotherapy-gel-for-kids-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Lab results from pet dogs confirm promise of new immunotherapy gel for kids\u2019 cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-results-from-pet-dogs-confirm-promise-of-new-immunotherapy-gel-for-kids-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly published research from Telethon Kids Institute and The University of Western Australia has found a gel applied during surgery to treat sarcoma tumors is both safe and highly effective at preventing the cancer from growing back.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the journal <i>Cell Reports Medicine<\/i>, have formed the scientific backbone of a trial underway in Perth to test the feasibility and safety of the gel on pet dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The polymer-filled gel is packed with a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immunotherapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immunotherapy<\/a> and is applied inside the wound when the tumor is removed, drawing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a> to the wound\/resection site to \u201cmop up\u201d any remaining cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly published research from Telethon Kids Institute and The University of Western Australia has found a gel applied during surgery to treat sarcoma tumors is both safe and highly effective at preventing the cancer from growing back. The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, have formed the scientific backbone of a trial underway [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167868","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=167868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}