{"id":87133,"date":"2019-01-28T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-cure-for-cancer-israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one"},"modified":"2019-01-28T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:22:21","slug":"a-cure-for-cancer-israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-cure-for-cancer-israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one","title":{"rendered":"A cure for cancer? Israeli scientists say they think they found one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cure-for-cancer-israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the first complete cure for cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we will offer in a year\u2019s time a complete cure for cancer,\u201d said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets. \u201cOur cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,\u201d Aridor said. \u201cOur solution will be both generic and personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It sounds fantastical, especially considering that an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Further, every sixth death in the world is due to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death (second only to cardiovascular disease).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HEALTH-SCIENCE\/A-cure-for-cancer-Israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one-578939\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HEALTH-SCIENCE\/A-cure-for-cancer-Israe...one-578939<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the first complete cure for cancer. \u201cWe believe we will offer in a year\u2019s time a complete cure for cancer,\u201d said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87133","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}