{"id":244016,"date":"2026-09-14T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/penn-trial-tests-ultrafast-form-of-radiation-aimed-at-reducing-cancer-treatment-side-effects"},"modified":"2026-09-14T01:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:03:52","slug":"penn-trial-tests-ultrafast-form-of-radiation-aimed-at-reducing-cancer-treatment-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/penn-trial-tests-ultrafast-form-of-radiation-aimed-at-reducing-cancer-treatment-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"Penn trial tests ultrafast form of radiation aimed at reducing cancer treatment side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/penn-trial-tests-ultrafast-form-of-radiation-aimed-at-reducing-cancer-treatment-side-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hope, ultimately, is not only to preserve quality of life in patients, but to make radiation therapy more convenient and accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of 30 to 40 treatments, we can do the treatment in one to five treatments,\u201d said Alexander Lin, a radiation oncologist at Penn and the trial\u2019s lead investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors typically divide a patient\u2019s radiation therapy into dozens of daily treatments over several weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hope, ultimately, is not only to preserve quality of life in patients, but to make radiation therapy more convenient and accessible. \u201cInstead of 30 to 40 treatments, we can do the treatment in one to five treatments,\u201d said Alexander Lin, a radiation oncologist at Penn and the trial\u2019s lead investigator. Doctors typically divide a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244016","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}