Re: Best cancer clinics for advanced breast cancer? & life's treasures

January 8, 2009

, great post you hit the nail on the head. I would go with a

first hand experience personal referral from someone that you trust

then making a doctor or clinic decision off of a statistic.

I believe wisdom and truth (treasures) are powerful and not common

knowledge of the population, but usually held by small groups of

people or individuals. This applies to health/medicine, financial,

personal value systems, government, military, religion, martial arts,

or virtually any area of life you can mention. I believe that

generally; if everyone is going in one direction, go in the opposite

direction and you most likely will be better off. The large roads in

life do not contain the hidden treasures that the smaller paths

eventually lead to.

Sincerely,

Hope

VGammill <vgammill@...> wrote:

> Statistics from small clinics are meaningless. Lets say a clinic

> handles one new breast cancer per month.

> Important variables include the stage of cancer, the grade of

cancer, the hormone receptor status, the HER2neu status, the drug

resistance status, the potential length of stay, the ability to pay for the

recommended treatments, treatment desires of the patient, and the ability of

patients to return for follow up. Thus every patient is going to be different

and there would be no good way to give

> meaningful numbers.

> Clinics can create their own statistics by just saying anything

they choose, or they can create them by prescreening patients and taking only

the easier ones. I don't think that any outsider, and that includes Ralph Moss,

has any idea of the relative merits of the

> Mexican and European clinics, their therapies, their staffs, or the

> behind-the-scene politics. Most of the best clinicians and the

best strategies fly under the radar -- the nail that sticks up gets

> hammered down. The larger and best known clinics are those that

have learned to avoid problems with local government controllers by

> setting up their own conveyor belts and providing uncreative and

> unprovocative therapies.

>

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