{"id":243179,"date":"2026-08-25T21:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-treatment-helps-patients-with-rectal-cancer-avoid-major-surgery-and-side-effects"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:10:38","slug":"new-treatment-helps-patients-with-rectal-cancer-avoid-major-surgery-and-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-treatment-helps-patients-with-rectal-cancer-avoid-major-surgery-and-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"New treatment helps patients with rectal cancer avoid major surgery and side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-treatment-helps-patients-with-rectal-cancer-avoid-major-surgery-and-side-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A landmark Cancer Research UK-funded trial suggests 4 in 5 people with early-stage rectal cancer could avoid major surgery and life-changing side effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark Cancer Research UK-funded trial suggests 4 in 5 people with early-stage rectal cancer could avoid major surgery and life-changing side effects.<\/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-243179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243179","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=243179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}