Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

Re:Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors A... by Filligree on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:44AM (#19264392)

A lot of cancers have good a prognosis, especially if diagnosed early. Would you still do so if your chance of long-term survival and full remission, with treatment, is 50% or higher?

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Re:Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors A... by pacala on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:54AM (#19264549)

Problem is, the treatment provider offers no hard guarantees: full remission or your money back. The claimed success rates could be based on research studies, which have a reputation to be systemically flawed.

> Over a 10-year stretch, he said, Amgen’s scientists had tried to replicate the findings of 53 “landmark” studies in cancer biology. Just six of them came up with positive results.

https://slate.com/technology/2016/04/biomedicine-facing-a-wo...

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Re:Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors A... by vamos_davai on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:55AM (#19264565)

I think it depends on cost. Maybe if the cost is 5x my yearly income, then it's probably not worth it for me to continue going on.

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