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I am the OP, so along with your "bullshit detector", I'm afraid your eye for details may also be due for a service. A stage IV of any single one of the myriad
by inopinatus 6y ago
I am the OP, so along with your "bullshit detector", I'm afraid your eye for details may also be due for a service.
A stage IV of any single one of the myriad subtypes of cancer is not a representative example of all cancers, let alone a guide to their stage distribution. Cherry-picking one, and then grossly distorting its stats, tells us nothing.
The simple fact is, a very senior doctor, whose job is to diagnose cancer, observed that US institutions have a disproportionately large collection of late-stage presentations to study.
- refurb 6y agoThat’s why I said “there must be data missing” and I gave an example of a fully screened cancer (colorectal) that still has stage 4 prevalence in Australia. So pardon me if I’m struggling to figure out what cancer this is when the details are sparse. So since you’re the OP, do you want to share the tumor type that “you rarely see stage 4 in Australia” but is apparently super common at Stanford? Since I work in healthcare I’d be super interested to know.
- inopinatus 6y agoI will not be bothering the doctor quoted with this sealioning-by-proxy. Had it not come on the coat-tails of such bad-faith misquoting, cherry-picking, statistical manipulation, misrepresentation et cetera, perhaps I might. Instead I bid you a good day.
- refurb 6y agoWell in that case, you won't hold it against me if I doubt your story entirely.