{"id":224103,"date":"2025-10-27T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/lung-cancer-cells-in-the-brain-form-electrical-connections-with-neurons-that-spur-tumor-growth"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:04:36","slug":"lung-cancer-cells-in-the-brain-form-electrical-connections-with-neurons-that-spur-tumor-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/lung-cancer-cells-in-the-brain-form-electrical-connections-with-neurons-that-spur-tumor-growth","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer cells in the brain form electrical connections with neurons that spur tumor growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lung-cancer-cells-in-the-brain-form-electrical-connections-with-neurons-that-spur-tumor-growth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/media-contacts\/krista_conger.html\">Krista Conger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small cell lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. A Stanford Medicine-led study shows the cancer cells form synapses with neurons, and signaling across these synapses encourages tumor growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Krista Conger Small cell lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. A Stanford Medicine-led study shows the cancer cells form synapses with neurons, and signaling across these synapses encourages tumor growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224103","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\/224103","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=224103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}