{"id":757536,"date":"2026-09-02T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757536\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:26:11","slug":"time-of-day-for-cancer-treatment-could-influence-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757536\/","title":{"rendered":"Time of day for cancer treatment &#8216;could influence outcomes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Lorigan told the BBC: &#8220;It might be that people arriving for treatment later are less well, are more frail, are relying on hospital transport, etc. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we really need to look at this more systematically, and as a result with colleagues in Southampton and in Cardiff, we&#8217;ve designed a trial to test this, and why the immune system might be more receptive at specific times of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;When we&#8217;re trying to improve our treatments, we&#8217;re adding in new drugs, more expensive drugs, causing more side effects, but this would be essentially cost-neutral. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just quite &#8211; if it works &#8211; a significant benefit just based on giving the treatment at a different time of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team is seeking funding to carry out the research under tightly controlled conditions on patients with melanoma and haematological cancers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers say patients should keep attending appointments as scheduled while further studies are undertaken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Any eventual changes would likely involve only the first three or four cycles of treatment, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Lorigan told the BBC: &#8220;It might be that people arriving for treatment later are less well, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}