{"id":386,"date":"2017-12-06T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2018-08-15T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:40:54","slug":"about-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/about-brain-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"About Brain Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/about-brain-cancer-read\/\">Read Only<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium_large wp-image-260 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/87ddd9ae-cad7-4ca4-8f12-daae93b1aa74-768x457.png\" alt=\"Brain and other nervous system cancer is the 10th LEADING cause of death for BOTH men and women. Despite its high prevalence and mortality rate there has only been 4 FDA approved drugs in the past 30 years. Between 1998 and 2014 there was 78 investigation brain tumor drugs that entered the clinical trial evaluation process and 75 of them failed. The most common reason for failure is insufficient enrollment rates. Despite there being NO FDA approved cure only 2-3% of cancer patients ever enroll in clinical trials. Standard care is still the main form of treatment even though only about 1\/3 of all malignant brain tumor patients survive.\" width=\"768\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/87ddd9ae-cad7-4ca4-8f12-daae93b1aa74-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/87ddd9ae-cad7-4ca4-8f12-daae93b1aa74-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/87ddd9ae-cad7-4ca4-8f12-daae93b1aa74.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-158 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Brain-cancer.png\" alt=\"BRAIN CANCER FACTS Brain Cancer is the 10th leading cause of death for both men and women The five year survival rate for people with Cancerous brain or CNS tumors is 34% for men and 36% for women 4 FDA approved drugs in 30 years 5 year survival rate for glioblastoma is 5.5%\" width=\"576\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Brain-cancer.png 408w, https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Brain-cancer-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<style type=\"text\/css\" >#b_vtxclnyt0e5970i1ibry a{color:#ffcb05; background: #3661ad; background: -moz-linear-gradient(-45deg,  #3661ad 0%, #6abf4b 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right bottom, color-stop(0%,#3661ad), color-stop(100%,#6abf4b)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(-45deg,  #3661ad 0%,#6abf4b 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(-45deg,  #3661ad 0%,#6abf4b 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(-45deg,  #3661ad 0%,#6abf4b 100%); background: linear-gradient(135deg,  #3661ad 0%,#6abf4b 100%); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr=\"#3661ad\", endColorstr=\"#6abf4b\",GradientType=1 );  margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;  margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; font-weight:900; border-radius:0px;}#b_vtxclnyt0e5970i1ibry a:hover{color:#d55225 ; background: ;}<\/style><div class=\"ta_center tf_btn_pos\" id=\"b_vtxclnyt0e5970i1ibry\" ><a class=\"rd_normal_bt large_rd_bt rda_fadeIn \" href=\"https:\/\/www.classy.org\/campaign\/synapse-launch-event-and-fundraiser-for-fasttrek-org-9-5-18-roger-williams-botanical-center\/c193856\" target=\"yes\"   >DONATE<\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Read Only[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]DONATE[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/about-brain-cancer\/\" class=\"more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fasttrek.org\/fasttrek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}