Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?

Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by maaku on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:17PM (#6234043)

And you clearly don't know how medical statistics work. Take the simple flu shot: chance of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome from the vaccination is about 1 in a million, and about 1 in 20 of those die from complications (odds are better if you seek prompt treatment). Does the flu shot provide benefit 100% of the time? No: in some cases it's killed people.

So it goes with even the most advanced, futuristic cancer treatments. There will always be cases where the treatment kills the patient, or fails to affect the disease in any way. It will be the job of medical research to make those rare cases rarer.

And by the way, if cancer is not a disease, then what the heck is it?

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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by lutusp on Sunday August 18, 2013 @07:45PM (#6234783)

> And you clearly don't know how medical statistics work.

Both false and unrelated to the present topic.

> Does the flu shot provide benefit 100% of the time? No: in some cases it's killed people.

And cure still means cure.

> So it goes with even the most advanced, futuristic cancer treatments.

And none of them offers a cure.

> And by the way, if cancer is not a disease, then what the heck is it?

You must first locate where I claimed that cancer is not a disease.

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