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To: G Larry

“Your guess about stage 3 trials or post trial use”

It wasn’t a guess, it was an answer.

I’m glad to hear you have done well after chemo. Surely you understand that the 3 month hypothetical this guy was talking about was just that - an example of someone whose life would have been expected to be extended by 3 months after getting the appropriate chemo for that type of cancer. I’m guessing that this hypothetical cancer is not the type you had.

When my father had his first fight with cancer, his life expectancy was normal, after chemo cleared it up. When he had his second fight with cancer 12 years later, the expectancy was that his life would be extended by 2 years after he completed the chemo regimin. He lasted one.


38 posted on 08/09/2013 1:26:41 PM PDT by green iguana
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To: green iguana

The problem with these hypothetical “examples” is that they are used to numb people to the idea of death panels.

As though there is some cost/benefit analysis that would be objectively and scientifically applied.

The truth is you won’t have to worry about being denied the treatment, because the diagnostic testing won’t even be authorized.


41 posted on 08/09/2013 1:41:20 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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