{"id":232635,"date":"2026-03-05T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/overcoming-ovarian-cancers-resistance-to-immunotherapy"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:06:27","slug":"overcoming-ovarian-cancers-resistance-to-immunotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/overcoming-ovarian-cancers-resistance-to-immunotherapy","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming ovarian cancer\u2019s resistance to immunotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/overcoming-ovarian-cancers-resistance-to-immunotherapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cells in our immune system are best known for providing security against external invaders such as bacteria and viruses. These immune cells also guard against internal threats, including cancerous tumors. Different forms of cancer cells and tumors have their own tricks for avoiding detection by the body\u2019s security system altogether or otherwise sabotaging any attempts to muster an immune response. In the case of the most common and difficult-to-treat form of ovarian cancer, this ability to suppress the immune system also makes the cancer resistant to treatments known as immunotherapies that seek to supercharge immune cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you boost the capability of immune cells, a treatment will have limited success if the cells struggle to recognize and react to the tumor,\u201d said David Schlaepfer, Ph.D., a professor in the department of OBGYN and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cells in our immune system are best known for providing security against external invaders such as bacteria and viruses. These immune cells also guard against internal threats, including cancerous tumors. Different forms of cancer cells and tumors have their own tricks for avoiding detection by the body\u2019s security system altogether or otherwise sabotaging any attempts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232635","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=232635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}