{"id":139866,"date":"2026-03-16T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:46:09","slug":"10-questions-with-hematologist-oncologist-andrea-rivera-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139866\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Questions With Hematologist Oncologist Andrea Rivera, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a terrarium, a microenvironment of soil, mosses, pebbles and charcoal creates ideal conditions for plants to thrive. Similarly, the body\u2019s immune system helps establish a balance that can both prevent infection and detect and repel cancer. A fascination with this incredible part of human biology inspired hematologist oncologist Andrea Rivera, MD, with Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute, in her pursuit of medicine. No wonder she loves to build terrariums in her free time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a practitioner with LVH Hematology Oncology, Dr. Rivera puts a priority on helping her patients understand whatever disease they may be facing. This makes it possible for everyone \u2013 patients, their families and physicians \u2013 to find the treatments that are most suitable and effective.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside a terrarium, a microenvironment of soil, mosses, pebbles and charcoal creates ideal conditions for plants to thrive.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-139866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}