{"id":3858,"date":"2016-08-08T07:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2016-08-08T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:53:36","slug":"facing-bleak-odds-cancer-patients-chase-one-last-chance-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3858","title":{"rendered":"Facing bleak odds, cancer patients chase one last chance \u2014 in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rob Waters for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">M<\/span>ick Phillips didn\u2019t think much about it when he started coughing a lot in the fall of 2009. He\u2019d been doing a lot of yard work at his home in Appleton, Wis., and thought he might be reacting to leaf mold. In fact, he had stage 3 lung cancer. Though his doctors didn\u2019t tell him this, his odds of living for five years were vanishingly small.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/05\/lung-cancer-cuba-biotech\/\" 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 Rob Waters for STAT) Mick Phillips didn\u2019t think much about it when he started coughing a lot in the<\/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-3858","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\/3858","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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}