{"id":186423,"date":"2024-03-30T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/breakthrough-therapy-obliterates-deadly-brain-tumor-in-days"},"modified":"2024-03-30T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T03:25:00","slug":"breakthrough-therapy-obliterates-deadly-brain-tumor-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/breakthrough-therapy-obliterates-deadly-brain-tumor-in-days","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Therapy Obliterates Deadly Brain Tumor in Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-therapy-obliterates-deadly-brain-tumor-in-days3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain scans of a 72-year-old man diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glioblastoma\">glioblastoma<\/a> have revealed a remarkable regression in his tumor\u2019s size within days of receiving an infusion of an innovative new treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Though the outcomes of two other participants with similar diagnoses were somewhat less positive, the case\u2019s success still bodes well for the search for a way to effectively cure what is currently an incurable disease.<\/p>\n<p>Glioblastomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/brain-tumors-can-rewire-the-brain-and-we-just-found-out-how\">are typically about as deadly<\/a> as cancers can get. Emerging from supporting cells inside the central nervous system, they can rapidly develop into malignant masses that claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK470003\/\">up to 95 percent of patient lives<\/a> within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain scans of a 72-year-old man diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of cancer known as a glioblastoma have revealed a remarkable regression in his tumor\u2019s size within days of receiving an infusion of an innovative new treatment. Though the outcomes of two other participants with similar diagnoses were somewhat less positive, the case\u2019s success [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186423","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=186423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}