Swede wrote:Why is it so obvious to everybody, except me, that I should only consider the 12.5% chance that chemotherapy would help me to get a longer life? When in fact there is a 87.5% chance that chemotherapy will only hurt me, and nothing good will come out of it?
tchan8888 wrote:
would also consider the 5 year survival rate for Stage III's.
Swede wrote:Why is it so obvious to everybody, except me, that I should only consider the 12.5% chance that chemotherapy would help me to get a longer life? When in fact there is a 87.5% chance that chemotherapy will only hurt me, and nothing good will come out of it?
tchan8888 wrote:
You expect this percentage from what source?
T
Swede wrote:tchan8888 wrote:
You expect this percentage from what source?
T
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0040842/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18083404
I am basing my reasoning on the guidelines from Socialstyrelsen (Swedish equivalent of FDA, or maybe the NHS in UK).
http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/riktlinje ... cancer.pdf
A very good and up to date review on all research and lots of statistics. Unfortunately all in Swedish. There is a full list of references on page 219 in the document.
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