{"id":6788,"date":"2018-05-08T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:42:41","slug":"wisconsin-study-seeks-extreme-survivors-of-metastatic-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wisconsin-study-seeks-extreme-survivors-of-metastatic-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Study Seeks &#8216;Extreme Survivors&#8217; of Metastatic Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"editorial-content__intro\">\n<p>Some patients can live for years, and even decades,\u00a0after breast cancer has spread to their bones and other tissues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/outliers.cancer.wisc.edu\/\">A new international study is looking for patients with metastatic breast cancer<\/a>\u00a0in hopes of unlocking the secrets of their survival.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwhealth.org\/findadoctor\/profile\/mark-e-burkard-md-phd\/8244\">\u00a0Mark Burkard, MD, PhD,<\/a>\u00a0a breast cancer oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/outliers.cancer.wisc.edu\/press\/\">inspired by patients<\/a>\u00a0who have lived as long as 40 years after diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do these exceptional patients survive so long with incurable cancer? We\u2019re hoping the answers can help more people live better and longer with cancer,&#8221; Burkard says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some patients can live for years, and even decades,\u00a0after breast cancer has spread to their bones and other tissues. A new international study is looking for patients with metastatic breast cancer\u00a0in hopes of unlocking the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[116,40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}