{"id":27910,"date":"2016-07-16T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/pancreatic-cancer-breakthrough-hailed"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:36:11","slug":"pancreatic-cancer-breakthrough-hailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/pancreatic-cancer-breakthrough-hailed","title":{"rendered":"Pancreatic cancer \u2018breakthrough\u2019 hailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pancreatic-cancer-breakthrough-hailed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the U.K. have made what is described as a \u201cbreakthrough reclassification\u201d of pancreatic cancer, which offers new opportunities to treat the often-fatal disease.<\/p>\n<p>A study co-led by professor Andrew Biankin and colleagues at the University of Glasgow\u2019s Institute of Cancer Sciences has found four \u201ckey subtypes\u201d of the cancer, with each possessing \u201ctheir own distinct clinical characteristics and differential survival outcomes,\u201d according to a statement released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers\u2019 paper was published in the journal Nature, and named the subtypes as:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/02\/25\/pancreatic-cancer-breakthrough-hailed.html?__source=facebook%7Chealthcare%7Clink%7C022516%7C5PM%7CPancreatic-cancer-breakthrough\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/02\/25\/pancreatic-cancer-breakthroug...eakthrough<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the U.K. have made what is described as a \u201cbreakthrough reclassification\u201d of pancreatic cancer, which offers new opportunities to treat the often-fatal disease. A study co-led by professor Andrew Biankin and colleagues at the University of Glasgow\u2019s Institute of Cancer Sciences has found four \u201ckey subtypes\u201d of the cancer, with each possessing \u201ctheir [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66902,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions\/66902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}