{"id":244762,"date":"2026-10-01T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/targeting-individual-mutations-will-likely-never-cure-cancer-viewing-cancer-as-a-quantum-disease"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:15:21","slug":"targeting-individual-mutations-will-likely-never-cure-cancer-viewing-cancer-as-a-quantum-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/targeting-individual-mutations-will-likely-never-cure-cancer-viewing-cancer-as-a-quantum-disease","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTargeting Individual Mutations Will Likely Never Cure Cancer\u201d\u2014Viewing Cancer as a Quantum Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/targeting-individual-mutations-will-likely-never-cure-cancer-viewing-cancer-as-a-quantum-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than focusing solely on mutations, Dr. Califano proposes that cancers consist of a limited number of cell states. Targeting all states simultaneously could help prevent drug resistance and transform precision oncology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than focusing solely on mutations, Dr. Califano proposes that cancers consist of a limited number of cell states. Targeting all states simultaneously could help prevent drug resistance and transform precision oncology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244762","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=244762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}