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"When reading this thread, I wonder what it will take as progress happens with each type of bc for people to truly consider the possibility that the most difficult and toxic treatments (taking the "medicine that tastes the worst", or "throwing the book at it") may not be the most intelligent or most heroic thing to do. "
AlaskaAngel,
The chemo statistics for success are worse the older the study, and the source of the study has much to do with it. (note that promoters of alternative therapies conveniently find lower success rates for chemo(gathered from spur of the moment net search))
What it will take for people to consider other paths than "the medicine that tastes worse" is a medicine that works better. Lots of claims to this, but nothing materializing. Heroics have little, if anything, at all to play here. Progress is slow, too slow, but until a better way comes along...
---Kevin and Sue---
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