{"id":91658,"date":"2019-06-05T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/drugs-make-headway-against-lung-breast-prostate-cancers"},"modified":"2019-06-05T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:03:07","slug":"drugs-make-headway-against-lung-breast-prostate-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/drugs-make-headway-against-lung-breast-prostate-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Drugs make headway against lung, breast, prostate cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drugs-make-headway-against-lung-breast-prostate-cancers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Newer drugs are substantially improving the chances of survival for some people with hard-to-treat forms of lung, breast and prostate cancer, doctors reported at the world\u2019s largest cancer conference.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who have benefited is Roszell Mack Jr., who at age 87 is still able to work at a Lexington, Kentucky, horse farm, nine years after being diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to his bones and lymph nodes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go in every day, I\u2019m the first one there,\u201d said Mack, who helped test Merck\u2019s Keytruda, a therapy that helps the immune system identify and fight cancer. \u201cI\u2019m feeling well and I have a good quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/4c83cc7cc92a430b8c026691e77815c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Newer drugs are substantially improving the chances of survival for some people with hard-to-treat forms of lung, breast and prostate cancer, doctors reported at the world\u2019s largest cancer conference. Among those who have benefited is Roszell Mack Jr., who at age 87 is still able to work at a Lexington, Kentucky, horse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91658","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=91658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}