{"id":3826,"date":"2016-08-04T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T19:40:56","slug":"in-cancer-its-back-to-the-future-as-old-treatments-make-cutting-edge-ones-more-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"In cancer, it\u2019s back to the future as old treatments make cutting-edge ones more effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">N<\/span>ew cancer drugs that unleash the immune system on tumors are all the rage, getting credit for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2015\/12\/18\/jimmy-carter-cancer-drug-keytruda\/\" target=\"_blank\">curing<\/a> former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/03\/07\/jimmy-carter-cancer-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Carter\u2019s<\/a> advanced melanoma and inspiring tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/04\/13\/sean-parker-cancer-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Parker<\/a> to pledge $250 million to cancer research. Behind the excitement, however, is the hard truth that these therapies work in only a minority of patients. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/04\/combination-cancer-treatments\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--CGSOTpTTyL-GNjdWwRGnH_FEnoECtNoCKBqme1OcDOVZ-c8CPM-vwM5sfyaI2ehiWXTddEuLnTyEQl0iubGlOhJuXqA&amp;_hsmi=32492229\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 Sharon Begley for STAT) New cancer drugs that unleash the immune system on tumors are all the rage, getting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","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=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}