Breast Mourning

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 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 -  (3 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 -  (2 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/