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Statistics.
Why do they not set up an ongoing NO NAME NO PERSONAL DETAIL national cancer treatment database so that an substantial information base would exist from which to draw stats. (Say Age disease status treatment recurrence outcome height weight girth etc) (either obligatory or with patient consent)
OK stats are stats and putting such a complex and subtle disease into boxes is not easy but it surely has to be better for patients to at least have some sort of likley outcome indication, based on fixed and known statistical criteria and rules, than the current apparent lack of stats.
I have in the past looked for stats by age group disease type etc without much luck.
Any thoughts anyone,
RB
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