{"id":10596,"date":"2018-06-04T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2018-06-04T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:18:16","slug":"a-new-cancer-care-dilemma-patients-want-immunotherapy-even-when-evidence-is-lacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10596","title":{"rendered":"A new cancer care dilemma: Patients want immunotherapy even when evidence is lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Casey Ross for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">Immunotherapy is a source of great hope in cancer care. It has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/09\/12\/cancer-immunotherapy-improvement\/\">rescued<\/a> some patients from the brink, while giving others a reason to believe that they, too, could beat the long odds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/06\/04\/cancer-care-dilemma-immunotherapy\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8759ZpL4vwqMBPGEWIxY2Vf3jpjwv-7fz0ShCJZhxIEIW0oUigLf-JF9ruZrBjutXbgb78NaZZ6YG6BGrjr4E4864Gdg&amp;_hsmi=63468144\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\">\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Casey Ross for STAT) Immunotherapy is a source of great hope in cancer care. It has\u00a0rescued some patients from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-end-of-life","category-medical-technology","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}