Posts Tagged ‘cancer statistics’

Conventional Cancer Statistics

When it comes to conventional cancer treatment, another key point to consider is the way its statistics are packaged. In her well-researched and well-written book "Outsmart Your Cancer", Tanya Harter Pierce outlines 6 main ways in which cancer statistics are manipulated to make them look better than they are - she had obtained these findings mainly from the excellent work of Lorraine Day, MD, and Ralph W Moss, PhD. * "Cure" is defined as being alive 5 years after diagnosis. This means that a person could be very sick with cancer for 5 years and 1 day, after which he or she dies, and still be declared as "cured" by chemotherapy. Isn't this simply playing with words? * Certain types of cancer and certain groups of people which

Read more...

Be the first to comment - What do you think?

Posted by    Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Categories: Cancer

Tags: cancer cure, cancer statistics, cancer survivor, cancerous conditions, pre-cancerous