{"id":78690,"date":"2025-08-24T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78690"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:55:56","slug":"turtles-could-hold-key-to-curing-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/turtles-could-hold-key-to-curing-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles could hold key to curing cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Iggfj.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Galapagos tortoise, which is a species of turtle, has a remarkably long lifespan and shows very low prevalence of cancer - RODRIGO BUENDIA\/AFP via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turtles could hold the key to finding\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/cancer-deaths-cost-uk-economy-10bn-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">a cure for cancer<\/a>, researchers have found.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/turtles-could-hold-key-to-curing-cancer\/ar-AA1IgefW?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ee0b1c8cadef4e7799bc081a11a961b4&amp;ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Turtles could hold the key to finding\u00a0a cure for cancer, researchers have found.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Turtle.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78692,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690\/revisions\/78692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}