{"id":684,"date":"2013-01-29T03:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2013-01-29T03:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:20:34","slug":"dna-map-offers-hope-on-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/dna-map-offers-hope-on-cancer-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA map offers hope on cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>All patients will soon have their tumour\u2019s DNA, its genetic code, sequenced, enabling doctors to ensure they give exactly the right drugs to keep the disease at bay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Doctors hope it will be an important step towards transforming some types of cancer into a chronic rather than fatal disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The technique could enable terminally ill patients, who can currently expect to live only months, to carry on for a decade or more in relatively good health, according to specialists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe should be aspiring to cure cancer, but for people with advanced disease, it will be a question of managing them better so they survive for much longer \u2013 for many years,\u201d said Prof Alan Ashworth, chief executive of the institute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cCancer often appears in people who are old, and if we can keep them alive long enough for them to die of something else, then we are turning cancer into a chronic disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the full story,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/9832535\/DNA-map-offers-hope-on-cancer-treatments.html\"> click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All patients will soon have their tumour\u2019s DNA, its genetic code, sequenced, enabling doctors to ensure they give exactly the right drugs to keep the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,75,320],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-cancer","tag-chronic","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}