{"id":220625,"date":"2025-08-21T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/injection-based-drug-delivery-may-replace-cancer-infusion-drips"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:19:15","slug":"injection-based-drug-delivery-may-replace-cancer-infusion-drips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/injection-based-drug-delivery-may-replace-cancer-infusion-drips","title":{"rendered":"Injection-based drug delivery may replace cancer infusion drips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/injection-based-drug-delivery-may-replace-cancer-infusion-drips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New delivery method lets cancer patients skip IVs, self-inject protein drugs at home.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Patients with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and metabolic disorders often endure hours-long intravenous infusions.<\/p>\n<p>These treatments involve protein-based drugs, which must be given in high doses but remain stable only at low concentrations. Until now, IV infusions were the only option.<\/p>\n<p>A Stanford research team has developed a delivery platform that changes this. The method allows protein drugs to be concentrated at far higher levels without losing stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New delivery method lets cancer patients skip IVs, self-inject protein drugs at home. Patients with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and metabolic disorders often endure hours-long intravenous infusions. These treatments involve protein-based drugs, which must be given in high doses but remain stable only at low concentrations. Until now, IV infusions were the only option. A Stanford [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220625","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}