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As someone in the industry you're 100% wrong. These aren't "tiny wins". These are massive advancements in cancer treatment. And they're happening every decad
by refurb 3y ago
As someone in the industry you're 100% wrong.
These aren't "tiny wins". These are massive advancements in cancer treatment. And they're happening every decade or so, and added together is drastically changing outcomes.
This is one study.
"Cancer mortality decreased by 20.1% (95% uncertainty interval [UI], 18.2%-21.4%) between 1980 and 2014, from 240.2 (95% UI, 235.8-244.1) to 192.0 (95% UI, 188.6-197.7) deaths per 100 000 population."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2598772 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2598772
- andrenotgiant 3y agoThis has been my experience firsthand in the system too. Childhood cancer (mostly Leukemia) treatment in the USA is a well-organized country-wide clinical study aimed, at this point, at carefully reducing the amount of high-intensity chemo via replacing it with drugs like the one in the article, Blina. They have gotten so good at treating Leukemia that they are now optimizing for reducing the long-term negative health impacts that come as a result of the treatment. There are still tragic cases where the patients systems don't respond well, or there are complications as a result of compromised immune systems, but everything I have experienced points to major advancements and continued progress towards improving outcomes.