{"id":89519,"date":"2019-04-14T20:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-kind-of-cancer-vaccine-teaches-the-immune-system-to-destroy-tumours"},"modified":"2019-04-14T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:42:33","slug":"new-kind-of-cancer-vaccine-teaches-the-immune-system-to-destroy-tumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-kind-of-cancer-vaccine-teaches-the-immune-system-to-destroy-tumours","title":{"rendered":"New Kind of Cancer \u2018Vaccine\u2019 Teaches The Immune System to Destroy Tumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-kind-of-cancer-vaccine-teaches-the-immune-system-to-destroy-tumours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have invented a new type of cancer immunotherapy by injecting tumours with a series of stimulants. The experimental therapy attracts the body\u2019s own immune system\u2019s attention, so it can come and destroy the cancerous masses.<\/p>\n<p>The radical new approach has already shown promise in patients with an advanced form of non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma that resists conventional treatments, and is currently being tested on a variety of stubborn cancers.<\/p>\n<p>The result can be described as turning the tumours into \u201ccancer vaccine factories\u201d, because attracting the body\u2019s immune cells to the cancer site is a method known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5528727\/\">in situ vaccination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-turn-tumours-into-self-destructive-vaccine-factories-of-doom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have invented a new type of cancer immunotherapy by injecting tumours with a series of stimulants. The experimental therapy attracts the body\u2019s own immune system\u2019s attention, so it can come and destroy the cancerous masses. The radical new approach has already shown promise in patients with an advanced form of non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma that resists [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89519","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=89519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}