{"id":4051,"date":"2016-08-23T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:18:18","slug":"experimental-cancer-therapy-holds-great-promise-but-at-great-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"Experimental cancer therapy holds great promise \u2014 but at great cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by Meghana Keshavan for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>Soon after she received the treatment, Karen Koehler\u2019s brain swelled. Her blood pressure plummeted. As she fell into a coma, her husband and sister sat at her bedside \u2014 urging the doctors to keep pushing her farther along the razor\u2019s edge between life and death.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/23\/cancer-car-t-side-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#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 Meghana Keshavan for STAT) Soon after she received the treatment, Karen Koehler\u2019s brain swelled. Her blood pressure plummeted. As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","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=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}