{"id":243928,"date":"2026-09-11T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-combination-therapy-shows-promise-in-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:02:38","slug":"new-combination-therapy-shows-promise-in-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-combination-therapy-shows-promise-in-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer","title":{"rendered":"New combination therapy shows promise in metastatic pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-combination-therapy-shows-promise-in-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results from an early-stage clinical trial, published in Nature Communications, showed encouraging outcomes among patients with newly diagnosed cancer whose tumors had spread to distant organs. Most strikingly, one patient experienced a pathologic complete response\u2014meaning no viable cancer cells could be found\u2014and remains cancerfree for more than two years without further treatment. These findings offer an important signal that a new approach may be able to overcome one of the disease\u2019s greatest challenges: its resistance to immunotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from an early-stage clinical trial, published in Nature Communications, showed encouraging outcomes among patients with newly diagnosed cancer whose tumors had spread to distant organs. Most strikingly, one patient experienced a pathologic complete response\u2014meaning no viable cancer cells could be found\u2014and remains cancerfree for more than two years without further treatment. These findings offer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243928","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}