{"id":77015,"date":"2018-03-19T05:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-therapy-cures-cancer-with-just-one-injection"},"modified":"2018-03-19T05:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:42:35","slug":"new-therapy-cures-cancer-with-just-one-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-therapy-cures-cancer-with-just-one-injection","title":{"rendered":"New therapy cures cancer with just one injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-therapy-cures-cancer-with-just-one-injection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current cancer therapies have terrible side effects and aren\u2019t always effective. And with things like radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the number of treatments one needs to endure makes side effects progressively worse over time. A new technique developed by researchers at Stanford University uses two agents which when combined, alert the body\u2019s immune system to the<a title=\"Medical News Today\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/320786.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_country=US&utm_hcp=no&utm_campaign=MNT%20Daily%20Full%20%28non-HCP%20US%29%20-%20OLD%20STYLE%202018-02-01&utm_term=MNT%20Daily%20News%20%28non-HCP%20US%29\" target=\"_blank\"> presence of cancer<\/a>, in order to eliminate it.<\/p>\n<p>Just one injection can be effective for a solid tumor. Such a targeted approach could limit nasty side effects and may even be more effective than current therapies. These results were published in the journal <a title=\"Science Translational Medicine \" href=\"http:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/10\/426\/eaan4488\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Science Translational Medicine<\/em><\/a><a title=\"Translational Medicine \" href=\"http:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/10\/426\/eaan4488\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a> Dr. Ronald Levy was the study\u2019s senior author. He told <em>Medical News Daily<\/em>, \u201cWhen we use these two agents together, we see the elimination of tumors all over the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Levy and colleagues injected minute levels of two <a title=\"Stanford University\" href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2018\/01\/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cimmune-stimulating agents,\u201d<\/a> into malignant solid tumors in mice. The most remarkable thing is that it treated not only the tumor it was injected into, but distant malignancies at other locations inside the body. Researchers believe it\u2019ll be able to treat all different kinds of cancer. Using T-cells to kill cancer has long been a driving focus of immunotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/philip-perry\/new-therapy-cures-cancer-with-just-one-injection?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook\">http:\/\/bigthink.com\/philip-perry\/new-therapy-cures-cancer-wi...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current cancer therapies have terrible side effects and aren\u2019t always effective. And with things like radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the number of treatments one needs to endure makes side effects progressively worse over time. A new technique developed by researchers at Stanford University uses two agents which when combined, alert the body\u2019s immune system to the [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77015","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=77015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}