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> This kind of statistical chicanery leads people to opt for treatment, which is usually very bad for you. In the 70ties survival rates for cancer was 25% toda
by jopsen 8y ago
> This kind of statistical chicanery leads people to opt for treatment, which is usually very bad for you.
In the 70ties survival rates for cancer was 25% today it's 50%. You think that's because we discover it sooner and tweak statistics.
Sure statistics can be made misleading, but overall stats comparing survivor rates across decades can be expected to correct for stages and time of discovery.
- 738472527784 8y agoSee monoclonal antibody therapy for lymphoma. I think there is debate about late stage cancer survival and chemotherapy drug effectiveness, which OP somehow spread over the whole "cancer" topic. I doubt there is any debate about treatment in early stage cancer cases, apart from some indolent types diagnosed at old age.