{"id":189564,"date":"2024-05-16T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/immunotherapy-may-boost-survival-after-lung-cancer-surgery"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:22:51","slug":"immunotherapy-may-boost-survival-after-lung-cancer-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/immunotherapy-may-boost-survival-after-lung-cancer-surgery","title":{"rendered":"Immunotherapy may boost survival after lung cancer surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immunotherapy-may-boost-survival-after-lung-cancer-surgery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immunotherapy can boost the survival of early-stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/a-to-z-health\/cancer\/lung-cancer-2665626923.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> lung cancer<\/a> patients eligible for surgery when it\u2019s combined with chemotherapy, a new clinical trial reports.<\/p>\n<p>Those who got immunotherapy before and after surgery \u2014 along with pre-surgical chemo \u2014 had a 42% lower risk of cancer progression, recurrence or death than those who only received chemo, according to findings published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Further, about 25% of those who got immunotherapy and chemo had no cancer at all remaining after their surgery, compared with about 5% of those who got chemo alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immunotherapy can boost the survival of early-stage lung cancer patients eligible for surgery when it\u2019s combined with chemotherapy, a new clinical trial reports. Those who got immunotherapy before and after surgery \u2014 along with pre-surgical chemo \u2014 had a 42% lower risk of cancer progression, recurrence or death than those who only received chemo, according [\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-189564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189564","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=189564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}