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What do you mean by "survive"? My experience is that no one survives a confirmed diagnosis of cancer. By "survive" _I_ mean that their life is unaffected and t
by giardini 9y ago
What do you mean by "survive"?
My experience is that no one survives a confirmed diagnosis of cancer. By "survive" _I_ mean that their life is unaffected and they die of something else and that their death is not sped by cancer.
Oh, there's the occasional "miracle" out there, but no one's paying attention to potential false positive diagnoses (i.e., person was diagnosed with cancer, is treated, later turns out to not be cancer at all, he's a "miracle", thank you Jesus, thank you Lord!)
- Retric 9y agoYour redefining the term. If someone survives a car crash they may have suffered massive trauma they are just not dead. The odds of being alive 20 years after a cancer diagnosis are not nearly as bad is you might think. Around 2x as many people are diagnosed with cancer every year as die from it.
- giardini 9y agoI'm asking you how you define "survive" and you haven't answered. Sounds like you're using the usual "5-year survival" of cancer research which means that, 5 years later, the person still has a heartbeat.