{"id":6851,"date":"2017-09-01T10:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:27:52","slug":"university-of-wisconsin-picked-as-a-site-to-provide-promising-and-expensive-cancer-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/university-of-wisconsin-picked-as-a-site-to-provide-promising-and-expensive-cancer-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Wisconsin picked as a site to provide promising and expensive cancer drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s American Family Children&#8217;s Hospital will be one of 20 sites to offer one of the most promising and expensive new cancer drugs, one that will come with what amounts to a limited warranty.<\/p>\n<p>UW took part in the clinical trial of the drug Kymriah, which just won approval as a type of gene therapy that harvests a person&#8217;s immune cells. The drug treats a rare form of cancer known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia in patients under age 25 who have relapsed or not responded to other treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The one patient UW treated during the clinical trial, a young woman who had been given less than six months to live, went into remission and has remained so for nearly six months, said Christian Capitini, a pediatric cancer doctor with UW Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s American Family Children&#8217;s Hospital will be one of 20 sites to offer one of the most promising and expensive new cancer drugs, one that will come with what amounts to a &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],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851"}],"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=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}