In message <tEJik.2810$7g.2060@fe109.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
> news:fecrl5-ldl.ln1@news.lumbercartel.com...
>> In message <sCwik.9666$cg.666@fe085.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
>>> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
>>> news:c0eql5-1j4.ln1@news.lumbercartel.com...
>>>> In message <hVpik.19761$ue.3011@fe089.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
>>>>> All I know and from what most Doctors seem to say is tham Chemo seldom
>>>>> works.
>>>>
>>>> Have a look at the survival rates for childhood leukemia
>>>> over the last thirty years.
>>>
>>> Oh, for sure.
>>> 1. Child
>>> 2. A systemic disease that "changes" with time. Chemo seems to mess up
>>> the
>>> entire sequence.
>>
>> Yeah -- they don't die.
>>
>>> It makes one wonder how many cancers are preceded by un- noted blood or
>>> nervous system anomalies that Chemo might stop.
>>
>> Wonder all you like -- but the kids aren't dying of leukemia
>> like they used to.
>
> And hundreds of thousands are dying of other cancers, so because we seem to
> have a handle on some lukemea, forget the rest.
Changing the subject, it seems.
You're posting the statement "chemo seldom works."
In a reasonable discussion, it would be up to you to post some
sort of basis for that besides "I heard it." However, being of
charitable inclination, I presented counterexamples.
One free one is all you get.
If you really want to back up, "chemo seldom works," then do
so. I won't even hold you to a practical definition of, "works,"
as long as it's not something silly like, "can be administered
to end-stage fulminating metastatic cancer with multiple organ
failures and still return the patient to full precancerous health."
Just compare to untreated cancer of the same reasonably early
stages.
I'll even grant you pancratic cancer of the sort that killed
Randy Pousch this week, although chemo certainly gave him time
with his family that he wouldn't have had without it.
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