{"id":916,"date":"2015-02-24T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=916"},"modified":"2015-02-24T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:02:24","slug":"novel-treatment-for-unresectable-metastatic-melanoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Novel Treatment for Unresectable Metastatic Melanoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Modern Medicine - February 2015 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1502-february-2015\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Novel Treatment for Unresectable Metastatic Melanoma\u00a0\u2013 MM1502<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa, according to the South\u00a0African Melanoma Advisory Board,\u00a0has one of the highest incidences\u00a0of melanoma cancers in the world.\u00a0While melanoma is the most deadly\u00a0form of skin cancer, a greater insight\u00a0into the immune system has led to\u00a0the launch of the immune checkpoint\u00a0inhibitor, ipilimumab, for the treatment\u00a0of advanced (unresectable or metastatic)\u00a0melanoma.<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Medicine \u2013 February\u00a02015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel Treatment for Unresectable Metastatic Melanoma\u00a0\u2013 MM1502 South Africa, according to the South\u00a0African Melanoma Advisory Board,\u00a0has one of the highest incidences\u00a0of melanoma cancers in the world.\u00a0While&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[61,47,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biologicals","category-dermatology","category-oncology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5REYo-eM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}