{"id":2577,"date":"2016-04-13T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:41:50","slug":"250-million-for-cancer-immunotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"$250 Million for Cancer Immunotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Parker, founder of Napster and founding president of Facebook is giving $250 million to six cancer centers nationwide for cancer immunotherapy research. Immunotherapy enhances the body\u2019s own immune system to kill cancer cells; it is considered \u201cas a treatment of last resort\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The new Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in San Francisco will fund high risk best ideas that may not get any funding from the government. By doing so, the institute hopes to improve the slow progress in improving cancer survival rates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2016\/04\/13\/billionaire-announces-250-million-cancer-immunotherapy-funding\/82821198\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28380479&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9jfzAf5I-GlwBAxVexZvtfYCCBAky0vaBy9m9sqbitnOKdZ6kSRdvQjvLzHXELT64zmiIklXbewl4k3x1fZhEhwFjiAQ&amp;_hsmi=28380479\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Parker, founder of Napster and founding president of Facebook is giving $250 million to six cancer centers nationwide for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}