{"id":234912,"date":"2026-04-10T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/why-anti-cancer-drugs-do-not-always-live-up-to-expectations"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:52:07","slug":"why-anti-cancer-drugs-do-not-always-live-up-to-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/why-anti-cancer-drugs-do-not-always-live-up-to-expectations","title":{"rendered":"Why anti-cancer drugs do not always live up to expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-anti-cancer-drugs-do-not-always-live-up-to-expectations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, a class of drugs called BET inhibitors has been tested in cancer trials with high expectations. The biology looked promising. Many cancers depend on oncogenes that \u201cBromo- and Extra-Terminal domain\u201d (BET) proteins help activate, so blocking BET proteins should slow tumor growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a decade, a class of drugs called BET inhibitors has been tested in cancer trials with high expectations. The biology looked promising. Many cancers depend on oncogenes that \u201cBromo- and Extra-Terminal domain\u201d (BET) proteins help activate, so blocking BET proteins should slow 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912","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=234912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}