{"id":170431,"date":"2023-08-24T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/unintended-effects-of-anti-cancer-drugs"},"modified":"2023-08-24T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:24:18","slug":"unintended-effects-of-anti-cancer-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/unintended-effects-of-anti-cancer-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Effects of Anti-Cancer Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unintended-effects-of-anti-cancer-drugs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drug development is a huge component of healthcare research that continues to grow, however, about 90% of drugs generated fail to make it to clinical trials. Drugs designed to target cancer fail due to many different obstacles including the tumor microenvironment (TME), which is the area surrounding the tumor. The TME is comprised of multiple cells generated to suppress the immune system and allow the tumor to grow. Since there are many mechanisms involved that makeup the TME, it is difficult to prescribe patients anti-cancer drugs that completely kill the tumor. Often a combination therapies are needed, but doctors run the risk of adverse side effects in patients due to toxicity of too many drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/reviewed-preprints\/88799v1\">study<\/a> published in <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/\">eLife<\/a> from Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stowers.org\/labs\/gerton-lab\">Jennifer Gerton<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stowers.org\/\">Stowers Institute for Medical Research<\/a> in Kansas City, Missouri reported one critical reason why patients may experience unexpected side effects on the cellular level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug development is a huge component of healthcare research that continues to grow, however, about 90% of drugs generated fail to make it to clinical trials. Drugs designed to target cancer fail due to many different obstacles including the tumor microenvironment (TME), which is the area surrounding the tumor. The TME is comprised of multiple [\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-170431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170431","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=170431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}