{"id":7524,"date":"2017-07-22T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:12:02","slug":"87-experimental-therapies-for-glioblastoma-are-in-the-works-some-might-help-mccain-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7524","title":{"rendered":"87 experimental therapies for glioblastoma are in the works. Some might help McCain now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">G<\/span>lioblastoma, the brain cancer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/19\/heres-know-sen-john-mccains-brain-cancer-diagnosis\/\">that Sen. John McCain has<\/a>, is invariably \u2014 and accurately \u2014 described as aggressive and as having a poor prognosis: Not even Sen. Edward Kennedy or Beau Biden, with access to the best care and most cutting-edge therapies in the world, beat it. Recent advances, however, have persuaded some scientists\u00a0that effective treatments are on the horizon \u2014 and some might even help McCain live longer than earlier patients did.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/21\/mccain-glioblastoma-treatments\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9yp0TLVIGiFsnZS2RWT_ifbzSJi4nGhJYfjVxPn9HRD2LNCmPSx3O55032ncKHprXHbj17oIBCfLHgVBgVyJikC6OYMw&amp;_hsmi=54496173\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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>(By Sharon Begley for STAT) Glioblastoma, the brain cancer\u00a0that Sen. John McCain has, is invariably \u2014 and accurately \u2014 described<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524","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=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}