Re: For those of you with Medline access........

From: Steph (steph_at_vancouver.island)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:03:45 GMT

"Peter Moran" <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Steph" <steph@vancouver.island> wrote in message
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>> I'd be interested in everyone's views on this article.
>> I think it is one of the most important articles in the medical
>> literature in the past 10 years.
> There seems to be no reason not to post the abstract and here it is. I
> agree with the conclusions, from the point of view of ensuring accurate
> informed consent whenever chemotherapy is offered to patients. But
> think the value of chemotherapy varies too greatly over many different
> clinical contexts for such *overall* calculations to be meaningful.
>
> If a similar calculation was performed for radiotherapy --------?
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De Vita did it, Peter.
For every 100 cancers cured, surgery cures about 55, radiotherapy about 40,
and chemotherapy about 5..................