{"id":8055,"date":"2017-09-03T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8055"},"modified":"2017-09-01T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:13:59","slug":"doctors-want-to-give-their-cancer-patients-every-chance-but-are-they-pushing-off-hard-talks-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8055","title":{"rendered":"Doctors want to give their cancer patients every chance. But are they pushing off hard talks too long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bob Tedeschi for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">A <\/span>new generation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/21\/cancer-car-t-pipeline\/\">immune-boosting therapies<\/a>\u00a0has been hailed as nothing short of revolutionary, shrinking tumors and extending lives. When late-stage cancer patients run out of other options, some doctors are increasingly nudging them to give immunotherapy a try. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/09\/01\/immunotherapy-doctors-end-of-life\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_BIPXaTCGUgOG-LTcjTucWM0NeCteEg2kAFs4IP9Sy-6WeSfFEq_Zie7J9PWDNtT_rhc1ow-V7vHHlWGXEsh-skv8nfw&amp;_hsmi=55892838\">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 Bob Tedeschi for STAT) A new generation of\u00a0immune-boosting therapies\u00a0has been hailed as nothing short of revolutionary, shrinking tumors and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055","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=8055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}