Should the statistics have a significant impact on how one lives their life. Depends. I have read a number of articles asserting that doctors as a group (based on their responses), when faced with a cancer diagnosis, depending on the type and the prognosis (statistics), are less likely to accept treatment. I am sure you read similar articles. If you wish I will post a link. These doctors have access to the SEER data and know where to find it. Yet you suggest that the "good" doctors not honestly answer our questions? Really.

A doctor who is diagnosed with cancer and refuses treatment based upon the prognosis he receives, i.e., the SEER data, yet if I am diagnosed with cancer a "good" doctor will not share with me the SEER data. A "good" doctor. So I am not entitled to know what the SEER data says because I will not understand it.

That is essentially what you wrote. You wanna rethink this??