 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | Ron, THere are two different issues in using statistics to determine treatment and using them to deal with patients. Every major cancer institution uses the NCCN guidelines to determine treatments for patients, Those guidelines are developed at the top 50 cancer centers on what is or is not working. This repy from you clearly shows that you think that individual doctors only use the SEER database to determine what they are going to do to treat a patient and you could not be more wrong.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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