{"id":5351,"date":"2023-08-14T23:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T23:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2023-08-14T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T23:37:45","slug":"how-a-controversial-us-drug-policy-could-be-harming-cancer-patients-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"How a Controversial Us Drug Policy Could Be Harming Cancer Patients Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-1024x720.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5352\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-1024x720.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-1024x720.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-770x541.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-293x206.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95-390x274.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-95.png 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2021, Amol Akhade, an oncologist at Nair Medical Hospital in Mumbai, India, received an e-mail from the Swiss drug manufacturer Roche recommending the use of a drug named atezolizumab to treat a specific kind of breast cancer. Akhade was surprised. That month, Roche had withdrawn the drug for this purpose in the United States (although it is still approved to treat other kinds of cancer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02492-x\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02492-x<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2021, Amol Akhade, an oncologist at Nair Medical Hospital in Mumbai, India, received an e-mail from the Swiss drug manufacturer Roche recommending the use of a drug named atezolizumab to treat a specific kind of breast cancer. Akhade was surprised. That month, Roche had withdrawn the drug for this purpose in the United States (although it is still approved to treat other kinds of cancer). Read more: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02492-x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}