{"id":86322,"date":"2019-01-02T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-to-test-new-cancer-treatment-on-human-patients-in-2019"},"modified":"2019-01-07T21:48:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:48:43","slug":"scientists-to-test-new-cancer-treatment-on-human-patients-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-to-test-new-cancer-treatment-on-human-patients-in-2019","title":{"rendered":"Scientists to Test New Cancer Treatment on Human Patients in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-to-test-new-cancer-treatment-on-human-patients-in-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.K.\u2019s <em>Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/12\/26\/immune-system-transplants-strangers-horizon-fight-cancer\/\">reports that<\/a> the new treatment, devised by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London, uses implanted immune system cells from strangers to fight tumors, instead of old-school cancer treatments like chemotherapy \u2014 a new tack in oncology that the researchers say could boost cancer ten-year cancer survival rates from 50 percent to 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Immune System<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The scientists behind the project explained it as a \u201cdo-it-yourself\u201d approach to cancer treatment in interviews with the <em>Telegraph<\/em>. Instead of relying on chemicals or radiation outside the body to fight tumors, the transplants aim to help the bodies of cancer patients fight the tumors on their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-new-cancer-treatment-2019\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-new-cancer-treatment-2019\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-new-cancer-treatment-2019\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-new-cancer-treatment-2019\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K.\u2019s Telegraph reports that the new treatment, devised by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London, uses implanted immune system cells from strangers to fight tumors, instead of old-school cancer treatments like chemotherapy \u2014 a new tack in oncology that the researchers say could boost cancer ten-year cancer survival rates from 50 percent [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86322","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=86322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86496,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86322\/revisions\/86496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}