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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I have to say, the more i research cancer treatment and cancer care i'm shocked that there isn't a universal standard by which everybody in the western hemisphere at least is measured; treated and and responded to.
One report i read recently suggested you had a 20%+ advantage if you were treated in the U.S rather than the U.K.
Yet on further research of that report, it seems it's as big a lottery depending on which cancer centre you get treated at in America since their results for care and survival vary just as dramatically !
Doctors are reluctant to post their survival rates and there's no law requiring them to do so.
Suppose you get referred to one site and are treated yet collect more 'collateral damage' from treatment than you would at another ???
Lots of questions around why and how so many in this and the last generation have contracted cancer too.
Is that down to heredity; lifestyle; genes; or just a sign of mans evolution ?
why is it that certain cancers have a far greater fail rate than others ?
Is that down to mass screening ? As is thought to be the case with breast cancer.
If we could do it for that, why aren't men called in for prostate checks with the same regularity as women for breast exams ?
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/01/30/prostate-cancer-quality-measures
One report i read recently suggested you had a 20%+ advantage if you were treated in the U.S rather than the U.K.
Yet on further research of that report, it seems it's as big a lottery depending on which cancer centre you get treated at in America since their results for care and survival vary just as dramatically !
Doctors are reluctant to post their survival rates and there's no law requiring them to do so.
Suppose you get referred to one site and are treated yet collect more 'collateral damage' from treatment than you would at another ???
Lots of questions around why and how so many in this and the last generation have contracted cancer too.
Is that down to heredity; lifestyle; genes; or just a sign of mans evolution ?
why is it that certain cancers have a far greater fail rate than others ?
Is that down to mass screening ? As is thought to be the case with breast cancer.
If we could do it for that, why aren't men called in for prostate checks with the same regularity as women for breast exams ?
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/01/30/prostate-cancer-quality-measures