{"id":232806,"date":"2026-03-08T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/researchers-praise-stunning-results-of-new-prostate-cancer-treatment"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:15:56","slug":"researchers-praise-stunning-results-of-new-prostate-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/researchers-praise-stunning-results-of-new-prostate-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Researchers praise \u2018stunning\u2019 results of new prostate cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-praise-stunning-results-of-new-prostate-cancer-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new drug for advanced prostate cancer has shown promise in early trials experts have said, with the medication shrinking tumours in some patients.<\/p>\n<p>Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in many countries, including the US and UK. About 1.5 million men are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/research\/acs-research-news\/prostate-cancer-is-number-1-for-118-countries-worldwide.html\">diagnosed worldwide each year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new drug has caused excitement as it is a type of treatment called immunotherapy. This approach uses the body\u2019s own immune system to fight disease, and has already proved beneficial for some cancers. However, experts note it has not yet had the same impact on prostate cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new drug for advanced prostate cancer has shown promise in early trials experts have said, with the medication shrinking tumours in some patients. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in many countries, including the US and UK. About 1.5 million men are diagnosed worldwide each year. The new drug has caused [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232806","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=232806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}