{"id":243714,"date":"2026-09-06T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cancer-cells-release-antioxidants-to-prevent-immune-cells-from-destroying-them"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:05:51","slug":"cancer-cells-release-antioxidants-to-prevent-immune-cells-from-destroying-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cancer-cells-release-antioxidants-to-prevent-immune-cells-from-destroying-them","title":{"rendered":"Cancer cells release antioxidants to prevent immune cells from destroying them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-cells-release-antioxidants-to-prevent-immune-cells-from-destroying-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molecules called reactive oxygen species, which include so-called \u201cfree radicals,\u201d have long been viewed as damaging byproducts of our body\u2019s metabolism\u2014a reason antioxidant supplements have been considered a potential way to reduce cancer risk.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists have discovered that certain immune cells depend on these molecules to activate and destroy cancer cells and that tumors exploit this dependency by releasing natural antioxidants to shut down the immune attack.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published today in <i>Science<\/i>, could help improve the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecules called reactive oxygen species, which include so-called \u201cfree radicals,\u201d have long been viewed as damaging byproducts of our body\u2019s metabolism\u2014a reason antioxidant supplements have been considered a potential way to reduce cancer risk. Now, scientists have discovered that certain immune cells depend on these molecules to activate and destroy cancer cells and that tumors [\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-243714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243714","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=243714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}