What killed Dana Reeve?

"Is it me, or is this a poorly written sentence?"

It is certainly a baddly punctuated one.

Thank you for the information. It is very interesting.

I am sorry to hear about your loss.

The inference that the cancers you listed have received short shrift so huge profits could be made by the pharmaceutical industry and oncologists reflects a complete lack of knowledge on the subject.

That wasn't my intended inference. My inference was that no one should be making any profit on these ineffective treatments; they simply shouldn't be allowed. I usually agree with you, but we will simply have to disagree on this subject.

Chemo, without surgery, doesn't work on the cancers that I listed. I've spent hundreds of hours reading studies on both existing chemo options and clinical trials over the last year; particularly those focusing on cholangiocarcinoma, and pancreatic and liver adenocarcinomas. I know exactly what they say, and I stand by my statements.

If any other "business" had a 1% success rate (and a higher rate of actually hastening death), they would be shut down. Even if it's your stated 15% (that seems to be the standard spin fed to patients by oncologists...heard it more than once), what does that mean? If you look at the studies, it means that 15% might live an extra six months...whoopee...we should be proud of ourselves after several decades and billions of dollars wasted.

The sooner we cut off futile treatment the faster we as a society will demand an effective treatment. It's time to stop throwing good money after bad on a failed approach. I supposed I shouldn't blame oncologists; the FDA should simply cut them off at the knees by refusing to approve these drugs. Most people don't give this a thought until they are faced with the situation. I did; my Uncle died in his forties of cholangiocarcinoma in the early 80's. But even I wasn't prepared for the complete and total lack of advancement made in the last thirty years when my Dad was diagnosed last March (he died in July at 62). Most people also don't ever to bother to really "look" at the statistics. They think that their family member was one of the unlucky ones for whom chemo didn't work; they have no idea that it didn't work for anyone else, either.

We need to quit wasting money, and spend it instead on body scans for early detection when cancer can actually be treated; or (what a thought!) finding the actual cause and a decent treatment for cancer.

More second-hand smoke BS.

Agree. . .stress may have weakened her immune system. . .do not buy the 'second-hand smoke'. . .The world would be more than half it's population size; were this the case. . .

Well, was doing some searching and did not close window. . .so in backtracking. . .thought this a more 'recent' addition. . .nothing like 'old news'. . .right? ;^#