{"id":183628,"date":"2024-02-25T21:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/drug-offers-wonderful-breakthrough-in-treatment-of-asbestos-linked-cancer"},"modified":"2024-02-25T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T03:23:25","slug":"drug-offers-wonderful-breakthrough-in-treatment-of-asbestos-linked-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/drug-offers-wonderful-breakthrough-in-treatment-of-asbestos-linked-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Drug offers \u2018wonderful\u2019 breakthrough in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-offers-wonderful-breakthrough-in-treatment-of-asbestos-linked-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis trial has changed the lives of people with mesothelioma, allowing us to live longer,\u201d said one of the patients who benefited from the drug. The 80-year-old, who wished to remain anonymous, won compensation from his former employer after being exposed to asbestos in a factory in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>He was given four months to live, but thanks to the trial is still alive five years later. \u201cI have five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren now \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t want to miss all that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough is significant, experts say, because mesothelioma has one of the lowest survival rates of any cancer. The new drug, ADI-PEG20 (pegargiminase), is the first of its kind to be successfully combined with chemotherapy in 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis trial has changed the lives of people with mesothelioma, allowing us to live longer,\u201d said one of the patients who benefited from the drug. The 80-year-old, who wished to remain anonymous, won compensation from his former employer after being exposed to asbestos in a factory in the 1970s. He was given four months to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183628","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\/183628","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=183628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}