Re: [cancercured] Australian Oncologists and fakery by the Cancer Industry

The study that Dave illustrated went almost unseen in the U.S. That's not unusual knowing the general attitude of Oncologists.

Can you even dream of the major producers of cytotoxic drugs (Chemotherapy) daring to explore whether or not they should review their use?

There are numbers tricks being used to make it appear that cancer is being treated successfully and the Australian Oncologists, and others, have discussed the methods. There are two methods. One is the 'Relative' survival rate and the other 'Absolute. Now that diagnostic tests are more accurate and more cancers found earlier, the five year survival rate, often used to make grandiose claims of survival, appear better when one adds the early findings to the five year survival rate. It is smoke and mirrors.

Here is how it works to confuse one:

"If receiving a treatment causes a patient's risk to drop from 4 percent to 2 percent, this can be expressed as a decrease in relative risk of 50 percent. On face value that sounds good. But another, equally valid way of expressing this is to say that it offers a 2 percent reduction in absolute risk, which is less likely to convince patients to take the treatment. "

Think about it. We take a 2% drop and make it 50%. Smoke and mirrors!

Joe C.

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