{"id":80105,"date":"2018-06-28T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/once-dreaded-poliovirus-could-treat-brain-cancer"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:00:59","slug":"once-dreaded-poliovirus-could-treat-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/once-dreaded-poliovirus-could-treat-brain-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Once-Dreaded Poliovirus Could Treat Brain Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/once-dreaded-poliovirus-could-treat-brain-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polio was a devastating disease before the development of the polio vaccine. But now, this once-feared virus might help treat another deadly illness \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56378-brain-cancer.html\">brain cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, some patients who had an aggressive type of brain cancer called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59876-john-mccain-brain-cancer-glioblastoma.html\">glioblastoma<\/a> and who received a genetically modified poliovirus lived much longer than typical for these patients.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that about 21 percent of the brain cancer patients who received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/45506-why-polio-threatens-world.html\">poliovirus<\/a> therapy were alive three years later. In contrast, among a group of previously treated patients who had the same cancer but received standard therapies (such as chemotherapy), just 4 percent were alive after three years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62938-poliovirus-could-treat-brain-cancer.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62938-poliovirus-could-treat-brain-cancer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polio was a devastating disease before the development of the polio vaccine. But now, this once-feared virus might help treat another deadly illness \u2014 brain cancer. In a new study, some patients who had an aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma and who received a genetically modified poliovirus lived much longer than typical for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80105","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80105\/revisions\/80208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}