{"id":86416,"date":"2019-01-06T06:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/can-cancer-care-be-industrialized-vanderbilt-and-ge-are-teaming-up-to-find-out"},"modified":"2019-01-06T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T14:23:46","slug":"can-cancer-care-be-industrialized-vanderbilt-and-ge-are-teaming-up-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/can-cancer-care-be-industrialized-vanderbilt-and-ge-are-teaming-up-to-find-out","title":{"rendered":"Can Cancer Care Be Industrialized? Vanderbilt And GE Are Teaming Up To Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-cancer-care-be-industrialized-vanderbilt-and-ge-are-teaming-up-to-find-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the time he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, Luke Simons, now 83, had already watched his wife and his longtime business partner struggle with cancer. His wife had chemo for her breast cancer 20 years ago. His business partner with multiple myeloma died 5 years ago. \u201cI was obviously aware of what it could do,\u201d he says of cancer. And of chemo, \u201cmy God, that can be just horrible what that can do to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As soon as he got the diagnosis, Simons\u2019 doctor at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (where his wife is on the board) told him about how president Jimmy Carter\u2019s metastatic melanoma had just become undetectable after taking Merck\u2019s new drug Keytruda, which enables a person\u2019s immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells. The doctor gave Simons the option of Keytruda, and he took it.<\/p>\n<p>After his first dose, Simons developed pneumonitis, which he aptly describes as a \u201cfever in my lungs,\u201d that made his doctor question whether to continue the treatment. He did, and the cancer that had spread to Simons\u2019 brain and pancreas is not showing up on scans, three years later.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/elliekincaid\/2019\/01\/06\/can-cancer-care-be-industrialized-vanderbilt-and-ge-are-teaming-up-to-find-out\/#24d15d594fa7\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/elliekincaid\/2019\/01\/06\/can-can...d15d594fa7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, Luke Simons, now 83, had already watched his wife and his longtime business partner struggle with cancer. His wife had chemo for her breast cancer 20 years ago. His business partner with multiple myeloma died 5 years ago. \u201cI was obviously aware of what it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86416","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}