{"id":247338,"date":"2026-11-14T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/preclinical-findings-show-experimental-drug-eliminates-75-of-aggressive-pancreatic-tumours-and-enhances-immune-system-memory-to-fight-other-cancers"},"modified":"2026-11-14T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:16:05","slug":"preclinical-findings-show-experimental-drug-eliminates-75-of-aggressive-pancreatic-tumours-and-enhances-immune-system-memory-to-fight-other-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/preclinical-findings-show-experimental-drug-eliminates-75-of-aggressive-pancreatic-tumours-and-enhances-immune-system-memory-to-fight-other-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Preclinical findings show experimental drug eliminates 75% of aggressive pancreatic tumours and enhances immune system memory to fight other cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many solid tumours, including many cancers of the pancreas, breast, colon and lung, protect themselves with a dense wall of scar-like tissue. That wall keeps the immune system\u2019s cancer killing T cells out.<\/p>\n<p>It is a major reason why immunotherapy drugs, which have transformed treatment for some patients, help only a minority of people with solid tumours.<\/p>\n<p>A study published today in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cancer-cell\/fulltext\/S1535-6108(26)00473-3\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cancer Cell<\/em><\/a> describes an experimental drug that breaks down this barrier from inside the tumour and lets T cells in to attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many solid tumours, including many cancers of the pancreas, breast, colon and lung, protect themselves with a dense wall of scar-like tissue. That wall keeps the immune system\u2019s cancer killing T cells out. It is a major reason why immunotherapy drugs, which have transformed treatment for some patients, help only a minority of people with [\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-247338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247338","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=247338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}