{"id":174693,"date":"2023-10-25T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/in-major-medical-advancement-study-finds-additional-chemo-slashes-risk-of-cervical-cancer-death"},"modified":"2023-10-25T05:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:23:53","slug":"in-major-medical-advancement-study-finds-additional-chemo-slashes-risk-of-cervical-cancer-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/in-major-medical-advancement-study-finds-additional-chemo-slashes-risk-of-cervical-cancer-death","title":{"rendered":"In major medical advancement, study finds additional chemo slashes risk of cervical cancer death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-major-medical-advancement-study-finds-additional-chemo-slashes-risk-of-cervical-cancer-death.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An already-approved chemotherapy drug could reduce the risk of dying of <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/late-stage-cervical-cancer-rise-ways-prevent-detect\/story?id=88704185\">cervical cancer<\/a> when added to the current treatment standard, according to new research presented at a major medical conference.<\/p>\n<p>The study, presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology, followed 500 people, most of whom had \u201clocally advanced\u201d cervical cancer that hadn\u2019t yet spread to other body parts.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the patients were treated with chemoradiation \u2014 the current gold standard for treatment, researchers said. The other half were given combination therapy that included a pre-dose (or induction dose) of chemotherapy before every session of chemoradiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An already-approved chemotherapy drug could reduce the risk of dying of cervical cancer when added to the current treatment standard, according to new research presented at a major medical conference. The study, presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology, followed 500 people, most of whom had \u201clocally advanced\u201d cervical cancer that hadn\u2019t yet spread [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174693","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}