{"624099":{"#nid":"624099","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech Expert Raises Concerns about Medical Crowdfunding for Advanced Cancer Therapies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/aaron-levine\u0022\u003EAaron Levine\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ein the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech Expert Raises Concerns about Medical Crowdfunding for Advanced Cancer Therapies\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMetro Atlanta CEO\u003C\/em\u003E, August 7.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPersonalized medicines that harness the power of our own immune cells to beat back advanced cancers offer great promise, but also raise concerns about how patients will pay for these costly therapies. A new paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows some patients are turning to crowdfunding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThat troubles Aaron Levine, a bioethicist in the School of Public Policy. He has written a new paper in The Lancet Oncology\u0026rsquo;s August 2019 issue examining the use of crowdfunding for a particular kind of cell-based cancer therapy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s kind of a canary in the coal mine situation,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;These are highly effective therapies for very sick patients. But if patients have to deal with costs in this way when the number of people undergoing these treatments is small, what will happen when these therapies become more broadly available?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/metroatlantaceo.com\/news\/2019\/08\/georgia-tech-expert-raises-concerns-about-medical-crowdfunding-advanced-cancer-therapies\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-08-07 18:00:29","changed_gmt":"2019-08-07 18:00:29","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Mohammadreza Zandehshahvar","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/metroatlantaceo.com\/news\/2019\/08\/georgia-tech-expert-raises-concerns-about-medical-crowdfunding-advanced-cancer-therapies\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583582":{"id":"583582","type":"image","title":"Aaron Levine","body":null,"created":"1478540612","gmt_created":"2016-11-07 17:43:32","changed":"1567618808","gmt_changed":"2019-09-04 17:40:08","alt":"A portrait photo of Aaron Levine, associate professor in the School of Public Policy","file":{"fid":"222478","name":"LevineWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LevineWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LevineWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104015,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/LevineWeb.jpg?itok=uvo6tqu5"}}},"media_ids":["583582"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9555","name":"aaron levine"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}