{"id":182846,"date":"2024-02-16T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/cancer-breakthrough-as-doctors-celebrate-new-wonder-drug"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:24:17","slug":"cancer-breakthrough-as-doctors-celebrate-new-wonder-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/cancer-breakthrough-as-doctors-celebrate-new-wonder-drug","title":{"rendered":"Cancer breakthrough as doctors celebrate new \u2018wonder drug\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-breakthrough-as-doctors-celebrate-new-wonder-drug.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/scientists\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Scientists<\/a> have welcomed a \u201ctruly wonderful\u201d new drug for a hard-to-treat and aggressive form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\"> cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by a team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/queen-mary-university-of-london\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Queen Mary University of London<\/a> said their new treatment \u201cquadrupled\u201d three-year survival rates and increased average survival by 1.6 months.<\/p>\n<p>Academics said that the new drug, which works by cutting off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tumour\" rel=\"nofollow\"> tumour<\/a> \u2019s food supply, is the first of its type for mesothelioma in 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have welcomed a \u201ctruly wonderful\u201d new drug for a hard-to-treat and aggressive form of cancer. Researchers led by a team at Queen Mary University of London said their new treatment \u201cquadrupled\u201d three-year survival rates and increased average survival by 1.6 months. Academics said that the new drug, which works by cutting off the tumour [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182846","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=182846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}