Re: [cancercured] Cancers that respond to chemo? Dee

You laid this subject out pretty well. Unfortunately, the average person hearing "we expect good response from this drug" doesn't know what you wrote about and to most people 'response' means getting well. Not many know the percentages and few the 30 day period where the tumor remains at the intended 'response' rate which has no relation to survivability.

Allopathic medicine has learned what benefit they can get from double-speak and to put it less kindly, fakery....pure and simple.

Days ago I tried to explain the difference between Relative and Absolute benefit from using a particular chemotherapy which is one of the most egregious efforts at fooling not only the public, but many physicians that do not look too closely. Using this trickery, physicians and drug makers can take a modest 2% benefit and make it look like 40%, a number that would encourage the unsuspecting to fall in line with the Oncologist's thinking.

Thanks for putting 'Response' in the proper perspective.

Joe C.

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