{"id":122478,"date":"2019-12-09T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/09\/holy-grail-of-cancer-cure-hides-progress-made-says-charity\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T00:01:54","slug":"holy-grail-of-cancer-cure-hides-progress-made-says-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122478","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Holy grail&#039; of cancer cure hides progress made, says charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICR says \u2018cure or nothing\u2019 approach not helpful to understanding how best to tackle disease in futureThe obsession with a cure for cancer as the \u201choly grail\u201d of research on the disease means the public is unaware of how much progress has been made in allowing sufferers to live longer, a charity has found.The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) said the effect risked creating an overly binary \u201ccure or nothing\u201d approach to cancer that could be unhelpful, not only in masking progress, but to understanding how best to tackle the disease in future. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/dec\/09\/holy-grail-of-cancer-cure-hides-progress-made-says-charity\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Holy grail&#039; of cancer cure hides progress made, says charity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICR says \u2018cure or nothing\u2019 approach not helpful to understanding how best to tackle disease in futureThe obsession with a cure for cancer as the \u201choly grail\u201d of research on the disease means the public is unaware of how much progress has been made in allowing sufferers to live longer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}