On Jul 26, 3:53 pm, "D. C. Sessions" <d...@lumbercartel.com> wrote:
> In message <tEJik.2810$7g.2...@fe109.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
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> > "D. C. Sessions" <d...@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
> >news:fecrl5-ldl.ln1@news.lumbercartel.com...
> >> In message <sCwik.9666$cg....@fe085.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
> >>> "D. C. Sessions" <d...@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:c0eql5-1j4.ln1@news.lumbercartel.com...
> >>>> In message <hVpik.19761$ue.3...@fe089.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
> >>>>> All I know and from what most Doctors seem to say is tham Chemo seldom
> >>>>> works.
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> >>>> 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.
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> >> Yeah -- they don't die.
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> >>> 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.
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> > 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.
>
> --
> | The brighter the stupid burns, the more |
> | chance that someone will see the light. |
> +- D. C. Sessions <d...@lumbercartel.com> -+
the immune system of the patient. A number of patients survive this
