The author argues that Steve's expected survival time was actually much higher than the median, because his cancer was detected early--and that the delay in pur

The author argues that Steve's expected survival time was actually much higher than the median, because his cancer was detected early--and that the delay in pursuing traditional treatment (surgery) may have been responsible for the poor outcome. Basically, the article would have been clearer if the author had just left out the median in the first place, as he doesn't think it's relevant.