{"id":173687,"date":"2023-10-07T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/england-to-rollout-world-first-seven-minute-cancer-treatment-jab"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:31:34","slug":"england-to-rollout-world-first-seven-minute-cancer-treatment-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/england-to-rollout-world-first-seven-minute-cancer-treatment-jab","title":{"rendered":"England to rollout world-first seven-minute cancer treatment jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/england-to-rollout-world-first-seven-minute-cancer-treatment-jab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aug 29 (Reuters) \u2014 Britain\u2019s state-run national health service will be the first in the world to offer an injection that treats cancer to hundreds of patients in England which could cut treatment times by up to three quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Following approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), NHS England said on Tuesday hundreds of eligible patients treated with the immunotherapy, atezolizumab, were set to have \u201cunder the skin\u201d injection, which will free up more time for cancer teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approval will not only allow us to deliver convenient and faster care for our patients, but will enable our teams to treat more patients throughout the day,\u201d Dr Alexander Martin, a consultant oncologist at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 29 (Reuters) \u2014 Britain\u2019s state-run national health service will be the first in the world to offer an injection that treats cancer to hundreds of patients in England which could cut treatment times by up to three quarters. Following approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), NHS England said on Tuesday [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173687","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}