Breast Mourning

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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Chemotherapy also saves lives.

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The success rate is what, 3%?

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Depends on the cancer, doesn't it?

And obviously how advanced it is when diagnosed.

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Sure it depends a little bit, but chemotherapy is distressingly ineffective. It only adds a tiny % success rate. It's no wonder most doctors refuse it for their own treatment. Huge money maker tho.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Cancer treatment is improving all the time.

Survival times over the past 50 years for many cancers have increased orders of magnitude.

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Cancer treatment is improving all the time.

Do you have any evidence chemo has improved over a 3% success rate?

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

People don't treat with just chemo unless it's not going to kill you anyway.

But inclusive with chemo, survival rates for not quite every kind of cancer are improving:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/five-year-cancer-survival-in-usa?time=earliest..2013

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Chemo is surprisingly ineffective is the thing. Did you have anything that suggests I'm wrong?

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How ineffective is surprising to you?

Would a halving of mortality be surprisingly ineffective for breast cancer?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK72103/

[–]SerpensInferna 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is the problem with you types. I'm just exhausted reading your replies but you have enough pathetic and tragic energy to keep going back and forth with strangers on the internet all day. Knowing you're not going to change anyone's mind. If you got off the internet for a hot second, had some face to face social interaction, maybe your life would be far less sad. Have a great day.