{"id":237389,"date":"2026-05-19T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/common-asthma-drug-may-turn-off-tumor-switch-tied-to-immunotherapy-resistance"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:16:08","slug":"common-asthma-drug-may-turn-off-tumor-switch-tied-to-immunotherapy-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/common-asthma-drug-may-turn-off-tumor-switch-tied-to-immunotherapy-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Common asthma drug may turn off tumor \u2018switch\u2019 tied to immunotherapy resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-asthma-drug-may-turn-off-tumor-switch-tied-to-immunotherapy-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug widely used to treat asthma and allergies may also help fight aggressive cancers, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that uncovered how tumors hijack common white blood cells to evade immunotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>The findings in mice and human tissues point to a practical, new way to improve treatment for tough tumors, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-04-insights-aggressive-breast-cancer-potential.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">triple-negative breast cancer<\/a>, where immunotherapy often fails.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in Nature Cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug widely used to treat asthma and allergies may also help fight aggressive cancers, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that uncovered how tumors hijack common white blood cells to evade immunotherapy. The findings in mice and human tissues point to a practical, new way to improve treatment for tough tumors, such as triple-negative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237389","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=237389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}