{"id":183454,"date":"2024-02-23T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/study-protein-indicates-likely-success-of-cancer-immunotherapy"},"modified":"2024-02-23T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:28:08","slug":"study-protein-indicates-likely-success-of-cancer-immunotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/study-protein-indicates-likely-success-of-cancer-immunotherapy","title":{"rendered":"Study: Protein Indicates Likely Success of Cancer Immunotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-protein-indicates-likely-success-of-cancer-immunotherapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/home-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology<\/a> have discovered a way to potentially predict the success of immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Immunotherapy involves encouraging the body\u2019s immune system to attack the cancer cells. This can be complicated by the cancer cells \u201chiding\u201d within the body or the immune system itself being reluctant to attack the cancer cells due to the threat to healthy surrounding cells.<\/p>\n<p>And, while it has been proven to be a successful treatment against cancer, immunotherapy is only effective in around 40 percent of patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to potentially predict the success of immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients. Immunotherapy involves encouraging the body\u2019s immune system to attack the cancer cells. This can be complicated by the cancer cells \u201chiding\u201d within the body or the immune system itself being reluctant [\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-183454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183454","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=183454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}