{"id":180276,"date":"2024-01-11T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/pill-on-a-thread-sponges-could-prevent-thousands-of-cancer-deaths-every-year-and-cure-agonising-heartburn"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:24:06","slug":"pill-on-a-thread-sponges-could-prevent-thousands-of-cancer-deaths-every-year-and-cure-agonising-heartburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/pill-on-a-thread-sponges-could-prevent-thousands-of-cancer-deaths-every-year-and-cure-agonising-heartburn","title":{"rendered":"Pill-on-a-thread\u2019 sponges could \u2018prevent thousands of cancer deaths every year\u2019 and \u2018cure agonising heartburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pill-on-a-thread-sponges-could-prevent-thousands-of-cancer-deaths-every-year-and-cure-agonising-heartburn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A NEW \u201cpill-on-a-thread\u201d sponge could halve oesophageal cancer deaths in Britain, researchers say.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new tech quickly tests for Barrett\u2019s oesophagus \u2014 a heartburn-causing condition that can lead to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Patients swallow the capsule containing a sponge, which dissolves in the stomach and expands to the size of a 50p coin before being dragged back up the throat, collecting cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NEW \u201cpill-on-a-thread\u201d sponge could halve oesophageal cancer deaths in Britain, researchers say. The new tech quickly tests for Barrett\u2019s oesophagus \u2014 a heartburn-causing condition that can lead to cancer. Patients swallow the capsule containing a sponge, which dissolves in the stomach and expands to the size of a 50p coin before being dragged back [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180276","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=180276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}