{"id":190371,"date":"2024-05-30T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-treatment-may-extend-survival-for-people-with-advanced-colon-cancer"},"modified":"2024-05-30T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:22:45","slug":"new-treatment-may-extend-survival-for-people-with-advanced-colon-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-treatment-may-extend-survival-for-people-with-advanced-colon-cancer","title":{"rendered":"New treatment may extend survival for people with advanced colon cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-treatment-may-extend-survival-for-people-with-advanced-colon-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People battling advanced colon cancers might have a new treatment option that could extend their survival, a new trial finds.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of two experimental immunotherapy drugs plus standard chemotherapy led to a median 19.7 month survival for patients, compared to the median 9.5 months observed among folks who only got a targeted therapy called regorafenib.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results pave the way for further exploration of this promising treatment approach,\u201d said study first author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/providers\/zev-wainberg\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Dr. Zev Wainberg<\/a>. He co-directs the UCLA Health GI Oncology Program, and is a researcher at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People battling advanced colon cancers might have a new treatment option that could extend their survival, a new trial finds. A combination of two experimental immunotherapy drugs plus standard chemotherapy led to a median 19.7 month survival for patients, compared to the median 9.5 months observed among folks who only got a targeted therapy called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371","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=190371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}