{"id":201805,"date":"2024-12-17T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-develop-scans-that-light-up-aggressive-cancer-tumors-for-better-treatment"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:28:05","slug":"scientists-develop-scans-that-light-up-aggressive-cancer-tumors-for-better-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-develop-scans-that-light-up-aggressive-cancer-tumors-for-better-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop scans that light up aggressive cancer tumors for better treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-scans-that-light-up-aggressive-cancer-tumors-for-better-treatment3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have used a chemical compound to light up treatment-resistant cancers on imaging scans, in a breakthrough that could help medical professionals better target and treat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The authors at King\u2019s College London say that using the radiotracer\u2014an injected compound used in PET scans\u2014could help inform doctors that a patient\u2019s aggressive cancer will not respond to chemotherapy before treatment is given. This would prevent patients receiving unnecessary treatment and provide them with alternative options that will give them the best chance of beating the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201cImaging NRF2 activation in non-small cell lung cancer with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/positron+emission+tomography\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">positron emission tomography<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54852-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, shows therapy-resistant <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/non-small+cell+lung+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">non-small cell lung cancer<\/a> tumors \u201clit up like a Christmas tree\u201d on PET scans when the radiotracer was injected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have used a chemical compound to light up treatment-resistant cancers on imaging scans, in a breakthrough that could help medical professionals better target and treat cancer. The authors at King\u2019s College London say that using the radiotracer\u2014an injected compound used in PET scans\u2014could help inform doctors that a patient\u2019s aggressive cancer will not respond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201805","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=201805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}