My word Captain Australia you do have a lot to say for yourself! But little of value for anyone who disagrees with your viewpoint. You have made thinly veiled accusations that I'm "Dangerously irresponsible", "stupid/paranoid/cruel". And yes, I take exception. And I take exception to your disingenuous post. I mentioned just a few facts from the study, but I clearly said, ("read my lips") " anyone diagnosed with any form of cancer should read that study". You apparently didn't or you would know that it said (and I quote vervatim), *_"The overall contribution was the sum total of the absolute numbers showing a 5-year survival benefit expressed as a percentage of the total number for the 22 malignancies._* so yes, it's an average and I didn't represent it as anything else! Anyone even reading the title of the study and that conclusion would understand that! But it was such a low average that the authors finally concluded, "As the 5-year relative survival rate for cancer in Australia is now over 60%, it is clear that cytotoxic chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival. To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required." You do have a perfect right - in Australia that is - to place such importance on an extra 2% as you yourself put it that you are prepared to wreck your immune system and undergo the horrors of losing hair and nails all while experiencing terrible ongoing nausea and a quality of life that that many oncologists have declared they wouldn't accept for themselves. All for an extra 2 chances in a hundred that you might be a 5 year cancer "survivor"! You excuse me of libelling clinicians. I wouldn't do that because that's not my belief. Although it is a known fact that many GPs allow themselves to be swayed by drug company bribes, clinicians are just people doing what they've been taught. No, it is the pharmaceutical companies that have been guilty of raking in billions of dollars with little regard for human life. Let someone have an adverse reaction to a herbal and they squeal for tighter regulation, all the while their own drugs killing hundreds of thousands. You also accuse me of "offering it as bald fact, the only fact,". Actually, I offered many facts from my own story of losing my own very dear wife. I was very discreet in what I did offer. I have shared the information about the hormone disruptors in creosote publicly and have received thanks from many grateful women. That, Captain Australia is potentially life-saving information in a community where wood burners are widely used. I'm wondering, just what facts you feel I omitted? For you actually said very little that pertained to my post except to just engage in elephant-hurling! Finally, you advise that people should just rely on the information from their doctor! Are you even aware that a doctor who advocates anything other than cut burn or poison is most likely to lose his licence to practice? Your advice would cut people off from making informed choice. You make ridicule over my comments concerning statistics. If you'd even done a 101 unit on Business Statistics you would know there are many subtle ways that statistics can be manipulated. But where you have the immense wealth of drug companies supervising statistical studies, corruption is not only possible it is inevitable and the last thing they want the public doing is listening to "mere anecdotal" evidence from real life that threatens their investment!. And yes, there are indeed hundreds of thousands. Their evidence? They are still walking around today, decades later!
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