{"id":29972,"date":"2026-04-06T09:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=29972"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:32:25","slug":"could-a-blood-pressure-pill-improve-the-health-of-cancer-patients-heres-what-to-know-pennlive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/could-a-blood-pressure-pill-improve-the-health-of-cancer-patients-heres-what-to-know-pennlive\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a Blood Pressure Pill Improve the Health of Cancer Patients? Here&#8217;s What to Know\u2014<em>PennLive<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=ec19058d41&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Tyler Curiel, a professor of medicine, talks about his study reporting that the blood-pressure medicine Telmisartan may enhance the efficacy of cancer treatments known as PARP inhibitors. \"This study shows that a common, safe, tolerable, convenient, and inexpensive drug may significantly improve how well an important class of cancer therapies works,\" Curiel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=ec19058d41&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Tyler Curiel, a professor of medicine, talks about his study reporting that the blood-pressure medicine Telmisartan may enhance the efficacy of cancer treatments known as PARP inhibitors. &#8220;This study shows that a common, safe, tolerable, convenient, and inexpensive drug may significantly improve how well an important class of cancer therapies works,&#8221; Curiel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-7Nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29974,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29972\/revisions\/29974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}