{"id":83640,"date":"2026-01-16T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83640"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:36:10","slug":"life-extending-prostate-cancer-drug-to-be-offered-to-thousands-in-england-life-extending-prostate-cancer-drug-to-be-offered-to-thousands-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/16\/life-extending-prostate-cancer-drug-to-be-offered-to-thousands-in-england-life-extending-prostate-cancer-drug-to-be-offered-to-thousands-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-extending prostate cancer drug to be offered to thousands in England Life-extending prostate cancer drug to be offered to thousands in England"},"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:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/uploads\/1839697\/09d71b5b-4ae8-4beb-aa2b-6f1d1d67d84b.png\" alt=\"A first illustration shows the prostate below the kidneys in the body. A second illustraion shows a close up of a normal prostate below the bladder and around the urethra with an arrow point out labelled &quot;urine flow&quot;. A third illustration is very similar to the second but shows an enlarged prostrate and the label says &quot;restricted flow&quot;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A life-extending prostate cancer drug is to be made available to thousands of men in England in a matter of weeks, after a campaign by a patient and a charity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwywezx86nko\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>A life-extending prostate cancer drug is to be made available to thousands of men in England in a matter of weeks, after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83640","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\/2026\/01\/ABIRATERONE-ACETATE-TABLETS-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83640","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=83640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83642,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83640\/revisions\/83642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}