{"id":14604,"date":"2019-11-25T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14604"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:51:37","slug":"a-cancer-care-approach-tailored-to-the-elderly-may-have-better-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14604","title":{"rendered":"A Cancer Care Approach Tailored To The Elderly May Have Better Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>When Lorraine Griggs&#8217; 86-year-old father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he was treated with 35 rounds of radiation, though he had a long list of other serious medical issues, including diabetes, kidney disease and high blood pressure. The treatment left him frailer, Griggs recalls.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/11\/23\/714300273\/a-cancer-care-approach-tailored-to-the-elderly-may-give-better-results\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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 Cheryl Platzman Weinstock for NPR) When Lorraine Griggs&#8217; 86-year-old father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he was treated with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-end-of-life","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604","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=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14605,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}