{"id":31648,"date":"2016-11-03T10:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/cancer-has-a-new-enemy-this-blood-test-hunts-down-even-the-earliest-traces-of-the-disease"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:05","slug":"cancer-has-a-new-enemy-this-blood-test-hunts-down-even-the-earliest-traces-of-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/cancer-has-a-new-enemy-this-blood-test-hunts-down-even-the-earliest-traces-of-the-disease","title":{"rendered":"Cancer has a new enemy. This blood test hunts down even the earliest traces of the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C59_oSf1TjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancer is a disease of ageing,\u201d Lin, geneticist and president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raregenomics.org\/\">Rare Genomics Institute<\/a>, told the audience at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/topic\/wired-2016\">WIRED2016<\/a>. The World Health Organisation estimates there are about 14 million new cases of cancer every year, and predicts that figure will double by 2050. Currently, eight million people are killed every year by the disease.<\/p>\n<p>By combining early intervention with an understanding of cancer genomics, however, mankind could be on the cusp of fighting cancer effectively and at scale. \u201cWe are at the intersection of three of the most exciting revolutions in cancer therapy,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/jimmy-lin-cancer-genomics\">http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/jimmy-lin-cancer-genomics<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCancer is a disease of ageing,\u201d Lin, geneticist and president of the Rare Genomics Institute, told the audience at WIRED2016. The World Health Organisation estimates there are about 14 million new cases of cancer every year, and predicts that figure will double by 2050. Currently, eight million people are killed every year by the disease. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38642,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648\/revisions\/38642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}