{"id":142848,"date":"2022-07-25T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/watershed-moment-doctors-finding-new-hope-in-treatments-for-deadly-pancreatic-cancer"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T03:23:03","slug":"watershed-moment-doctors-finding-new-hope-in-treatments-for-deadly-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/watershed-moment-doctors-finding-new-hope-in-treatments-for-deadly-pancreatic-cancer","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Watershed moment\u2019: Doctors finding new hope in treatments for deadly pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watershed-moment-doctors-finding-new-hope-in-treatments-for-deadly-pancreatic-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Correction &amp; clarification: A prior version of this story contained inaccurate information. Pancreatic cancer is poised to pass colon cancer as the second deadliest tumor type.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Brigham was having a very bad 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Her 97-year-old mother, whom she\u2019d cared for years, died in January. Her husband, who\u2019d suffered the ill effects of Agent Orange since his tours of duty in Vietnam, died of cancer in June. In September, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which has a five-year survival rate of <a href=https:\/\/www.cancer.net\/cancer-types\/pancreatic-cancer\/statistics target=_blank rel=noopener class=gnt_ar_b_a>only around 10%<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correction &amp; clarification: A prior version of this story contained inaccurate information. Pancreatic cancer is poised to pass colon cancer as the second deadliest tumor type. Barbara Brigham was having a very bad 2020. Her 97-year-old mother, whom she\u2019d cared for years, died in January. Her husband, who\u2019d suffered the ill effects of Agent Orange [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}