{"id":31929,"date":"2016-11-14T22:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T06:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/can-your-own-immune-system-kill-cancer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:02:59","slug":"can-your-own-immune-system-kill-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/can-your-own-immune-system-kill-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Can your own immune system kill cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-your-own-immune-system-kill-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It definitely can.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNN) \u2014 There was another big win in the advancement of immunotherapy treatments for cancer this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration approved an immunotherapy drug <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about-cancer\/treatment\/drugs\/pembrolizumab\" target=\"_blank\" >called Keytruda<\/a>, which stimulates the body\u2019s immune system, for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the drug could be the very first treatment a patient receives for the disease, instead of chemotherapy. Keytruda is the only immunotherapy drug approved for first-line treatment for these patients.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=42048984&nid=1012&title=can-your-own-immune-system-kill-cancer\">http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=42048984&nid=1012&title=can-your-own...ill-cancer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It definitely can. NEW YORK (CNN) \u2014 There was another big win in the advancement of immunotherapy treatments for cancer this week. The Food and Drug Administration approved an immunotherapy drug called Keytruda, which stimulates the body\u2019s immune system, for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. In other words, the drug [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929","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=31929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65761,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31929\/revisions\/65761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}