{"id":241957,"date":"2026-07-31T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/beyond-oncogenesis-the-unexplored-benefits-of-viruses-in-cancer-immunity"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:09:33","slug":"beyond-oncogenesis-the-unexplored-benefits-of-viruses-in-cancer-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/beyond-oncogenesis-the-unexplored-benefits-of-viruses-in-cancer-immunity","title":{"rendered":"Beyond oncogenesis: the unexplored benefits of viruses in cancer immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-oncogenesis-the-unexplored-benefits-of-viruses-in-cancer-immunity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study of tumour virology has traditionally focused on oncogenic viruses and their associated mechanisms of cancer initiation and promotion. Yet certain viral exposures can be beneficial by enhancing antitumour immunity. In this Review, Wang et al. explore the increasingly emerging evidence of protective roles of viruses in cancer immunity and how this knowledge could be harnessed to develop a virome-guided framework for cancer immunoprevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study of tumour virology has traditionally focused on oncogenic viruses and their associated mechanisms of cancer initiation and promotion. Yet certain viral exposures can be beneficial by enhancing antitumour immunity. In this Review, Wang et al. explore the increasingly emerging evidence of protective roles of viruses in cancer immunity and how this knowledge could [\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-241957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241957","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=241957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}