Thanks for the reply. First, let’s look at my claim: “Those who express cancers with certain genetically determined traits have something akin to a death sentence. Those with other cancers can sometimes be successfully treated”.Looking at the SEER data quickly, they are too over-aggregated to tell us much about the impact of treatments, or the differential evaluation of different treatments. In the period from 1975- today everyone is living longer and healthier lives. So there are general factors at work in the data that have nothing to do with treatment. Further, when we turn to the most aggressive cancers, even the SEER data show no significant improvement. Cervical cancer (notoriously aggressive) survival rates have not changed at all. Earlier diagnosis will impact all of these data, as younger people have more years of life ahead of them than older. In breast cancer, the withdrawal of hormone replacement therapy has significantly improved survival rates - a case where the treatment was harming the patient and withdrawing it was responsible. The significant survival of colon cancers (not generally aggressive) result from colonoscopy and surgery, not pharma. As for my sources, let me admit up front that I have no particular expertise in medicine. A family member is an oncologist who gives me weekly reports of the case conferences she attends, and feeds me readings and videos from time to time to help raise my awareness.
