{"id":211711,"date":"2025-04-17T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/low-intensity-electrical-pulses-could-help-the-immune-system-fight-cancer"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:06:02","slug":"low-intensity-electrical-pulses-could-help-the-immune-system-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/low-intensity-electrical-pulses-could-help-the-immune-system-fight-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Low-intensity electrical pulses could help the immune system fight cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-intensity-electrical-pulses-could-help-the-immune-system-fight-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-intensity electrical pulses have been medically used to destroy tumors while sparing healthy tissue. But lower-intensity pulses may have a different effect\u2014they reshape the battlefield, making tumors more vulnerable to the body\u2019s own defenses.<\/p>\n<p>According to Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, these lower-intensity pulses don\u2019t kill all the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer cells<\/a> outright. Instead, they alter the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/tumor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tumor<\/a>\u2019s environment, increasing blood vessel density within a day of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a> and boosting lymphatic vessel growth by day three.<\/p>\n<p>These changes may help guide <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a> to the tumor, potentially improving the body\u2019s natural ability to fight cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-intensity electrical pulses have been medically used to destroy tumors while sparing healthy tissue. But lower-intensity pulses may have a different effect\u2014they reshape the battlefield, making tumors more vulnerable to the body\u2019s own defenses. According to Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, these lower-intensity pulses don\u2019t kill all the cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211711","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}