{"id":25359,"date":"2016-05-04T19:32:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T02:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/laser-brain-cancer-treatment-may-offer-extra-advantage"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:42","slug":"laser-brain-cancer-treatment-may-offer-extra-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/laser-brain-cancer-treatment-may-offer-extra-advantage","title":{"rendered":"Laser Brain Cancer Treatment May Offer Extra Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-brain-cancer-treatment-may-offer-extra-advantage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neurosurgeons using lasers to treat brain cancer have discovered that the technique breaks down the blood-brain barrier, a finding that could lead to new treatment options for patients with the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>The blood-brain barrier is sort of a natural \u201csecurity system\u201d that shields the brain from toxins in the blood but also blocks potentially helpful drugs such as those used in chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to show that this blood-brain barrier is broken down for about four weeks after you do this laser therapy,\u201d said Dr. Eric Leuthardt, a professor of neurosurgery at Washington University in St. Louis. \u201cSo not only are you killing the tumor, you are actually opening up a window of opportunity to deliver various drugs and chemicals and therapies that could otherwise not get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/laser-brain-cancer-treatment-offer-extra-advantage\/3316232.html\">http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/laser-brain-cancer-treatment-...16232.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurosurgeons using lasers to treat brain cancer have discovered that the technique breaks down the blood-brain barrier, a finding that could lead to new treatment options for patients with the deadly disease. The blood-brain barrier is sort of a natural \u201csecurity system\u201d that shields the brain from toxins in the blood but also blocks potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67572,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359\/revisions\/67572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}