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Little progress in fighting cancer. The New York Times comes with a full page article about the failure of the fight against cancer. In archives on March 16, 2011
April 25, 2009: Source: The New York Times
In the past 40 years, the effectiveness of treating cancer patients in America with only 5% improved. This report in The New York Times in a large front page article dated April 22, 2009. There shows progress in tackling eg heart disease by 64% a different story. The prevention of cancer is almost no or very little improved, simply because more attention to smoking cessation and improved lifestyle. Waarschijnljik if these factors were adjusted, the numbers of effective approach to traditional cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are more dramatic. A few quotes from the article:
"In breast cancer, eg gets only 20% with metastatic breast cancer, the 5 year survival. for breast cancer with metastases to distance - the cancer has spread beyond the breast such as in the bones, brains, lungs or liver survive beyond five years - are These figures hardly changed since Nixon 's statement in the 70s battle with cancer to bind. "
"With colon cancer with metastases only gets 10% of 5 year survival. That percentage is marginally changed in the last 40 years. The 5 year survival for prostate cancer has been 40 years remained unchanged around 30%. For lung cancer is less than one percentage 10%. "
A few translated quotes:
"However, the bitter loss of data on cancer among all posiitieve messages from news in the media, of interest to medical centers and even labels on certain foods and supplements that can combat or prevent cancer.: The words are carefully chosen but effect is clearly welcome, cancer is preventable if you are good and healthy eating and exercising. If you regularly properly investigated to cancer early treatment and almost always be cured. If your cancer accidental death seems there are always special new experimental treatments and resources in the pipeline that you could possibly cure your cancer or to make a controllable disease. Unfortunately, as many people with cancer have learned the real picture is not always so shiny. "
"It turns out that for most cancers, except for some forms of childhood cancer and testicular cancer, there is no cure as once the cancer has spread. The best that can be done while the disease is a stable."
Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon cancer specialist from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , has to do with wrong assumptions: "People who come to expect that too often the newest drugs can cure metastatic cancer," says Dr. Saltz. "They are often shocked to hear that the latest technology is not a cure."
"One reason for the misunderstanding," he says, "are the words that scientists in cancer research and pharmaceutical companies often use. Sometimes accidentally, sometimes deliberately, sometimes with the best intentions, sometimes not, but they paint an overly optimistic picture, "says Dr. Saltz.
For example, a study confirms that treatment a statistically significant benefit "or a" highly significant survival "shows". "Too often," says Dr. Saltz, "the word" significant "is misunderstood and" 'substantial' and 'improved survival' interpreted as 'cure'. " Even so "significant" and "statistically significant" in this context a technical term for a difference in outcomes between two groups of patients waarschijnljk would not have arisen by chance. But the difference may simply mean a survival of more than a few weeks or days.
Then there is "progression-free survival," which doctors, researchers and businesses in order to indicate the time from the start of treatment until the tumor starts growing again. This does not mean that the patient survives longer, only that the disease is under control a little longer, maybe for a few weeks or few months at best. A better term would be "progression-free interval," says Dr. Saltz. "You'd have the word 'survival' should not be used in this case."
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