{"id":90,"date":"2012-11-29T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/research\/?p=90"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:12:07","slug":"pancreatic-cancer-patient-encourages-others-to-maintain-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/patient-testimonials\/pancreatic-cancer-patient-encourages-others-to-maintain-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancreatic Cancer Patient Encourages Others to Maintain Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My first reaction was shock, then fear that it wouldn\u2019t be curable. But I refused to just give up. I chose hope, and I began researching treatment options that would give me the best chance to beat this disease,\u201d recalls Falhaber, then 55.<\/p>\n<p>By November, he connected with a community-based oncologist and underwent a two-drug chemotherapy regimen followed by radiation therapy in conjunction with a second round of chemotherapy to shrink the tumor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time, my tumor was too large. Surgery wasn\u2019t an option, and cure wasn\u2019t possible without surgery,\u201d adds Falhaber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthnews.uc.edu\/news\/?\/21455\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at healthnews.uc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My first reaction was shock, then fear that it wouldn\u2019t be curable. But I refused to just give up. I chose hope, and I began researching treatment options that would give me the best chance to beat this disease,\u201d recalls Falhaber, then 55. By November, he connected with a community-based oncologist and underwent a two-drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,15,17],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-testimonials","tag-hope","tag-pancreatic-cancer","tag-patient"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}