"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
> 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.
