{"id":195589,"date":"2024-09-02T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T03:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/two-in-one-breakthrough-cutting-edge-immunotherapy-could-hold-promise-for-incurable-brain-cancer"},"modified":"2024-09-02T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T03:25:13","slug":"two-in-one-breakthrough-cutting-edge-immunotherapy-could-hold-promise-for-incurable-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/two-in-one-breakthrough-cutting-edge-immunotherapy-could-hold-promise-for-incurable-brain-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Two-in-one breakthrough: Cutting-edge immunotherapy could hold promise for incurable brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-in-one-breakthrough-cutting-edge-immunotherapy-could-hold-promise-for-incurable-brain-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEHI researchers have found a specific immunotherapy could hold promise for treating gliomas, an aggressive form of brain cancer with limited treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>The new study shows that CAR T cell therapy not\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at WEHI have identified a promising new two-in-one treatment that not only targets and destroys an aggressive form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehi.edu.au\/research\/diseases\/brain-cancer\/\">brain cancer<\/a>, but also helps the immune system develop a lasting defence against it.<\/p>\n<p>This dual-action approach uses a specific immunotherapy known as CAR T cell therapy to treat gliomas, an incurable brain cancer with few treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-clinical findings have revealed the therapy\u2019s ability to eliminate glioma cells and its potential to strengthen the immune system to prevent future tumour growth \u2013 two significant advances that could revolutionise the way these lethal cancers are treated in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEHI researchers have found a specific immunotherapy could hold promise for treating gliomas, an aggressive form of brain cancer with limited treatment options. The new study shows that CAR T cell therapy not\u2026 Researchers at WEHI have identified a promising new two-in-one treatment that not only targets and destroys an aggressive form of brain cancer, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195589","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\/195589","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}