Re: A classic March 2002 posts The Importance of...

October 26, 2005

I agree Marty. Screw the statistics. We are 100% alive.

In a message dated 10/26/2005 8:59:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,

grogclan@... writes:

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OUCH!!!!!!!

Your post REALLY made my day. (NOT)

In fact, as my surgeon said to me before the op, statistics are statistics.

YOUR survival rate is either 100% or 0%. We are shooting for the 100%.

Just Say NO to Negativity!!! (I just made that up)

Marty

On 10/27/2005 2:06:43 AM, colon_cancer_support wrote:

> Thanks for the post by on hope. I think we all need this.

> Today, I went to The Oncologist online (_www.TheOncologist.com_

> (http://www.TheOncologist.com) [link: www.TheOncologist.com)] ) and found

> recent (2005) articles about treating

> metastatic colon cancer and outcomes, including one by my oncologist Dr.

> Lee S. Rosen.

> Three of the aticles by leading oncologists say the following:

> 1.

> " estimated 5 year survival rates ranging from 85%-(0% for patients with

> Stage I disease to [less than] 5% for patients with stage IV disease. "

> Duke

> Univ. Med. Ctr.

> 2. " " estimated 5 year survival rates . . . [less than] 10% for patients

>

> with metastatic colorectal cancer. " Alan Venook, UCLA.

> 3. " Nearly all

> patients with metastatic cancer die of their

> disease " H.

> Hurwitz, Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.

> I am sorry to raise this, but why do our doctors lie to us? Why do they

> tell us it is " curable " and then publish this? I know that no one knows,

> etc.

> and that we all intend to be within whatever percent survives, but I like

> to

> be treated with honesty.

October 26, 2005

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