Citation required. The ORIGINAL JCO citation to the meta-analysis, not the Amazon link to your book. https://twitter.com/Connealy_MD/status/1125087264235773954 …
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First, the article is not in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, arguably the most prestigious oncology journal currently published, with an Impact Factor of 26.303. It's in Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists), which is a decent journal (IF 3.055), but it's no JCO. 3/
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It's also not a meta-analysis, contrary to what
@Connealy_MD's meme says. It's just a review article, and a rather poorly done cherry picked one at that. No wonder cancer quacks like it. 4/Show this thread -
In any event, this 15 year old rather mediocre review is the source of what I like to call the "2% gambit." It's a favorite among cancer quacks and alternative medicine believers that claims that cytotoxic chemotherapy only contributes 2% to cancer survival. It's
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I've discussed why this particular study does not support the claim that chemotherapy is useless in cancer multiple times; for example: 6/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/chemotherapy-doesnt-work/ …
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I encourage you (and
@Connealy_MD) to read the link in the preceding Tweet. TL;DR version: It leaves out a lot of cancers that are very sensitive to chemo, confuses curative with adjuvant chemo, and inappropriately lumps cancers together. 7/Show this thread -
In fact, chemotherapy, when used appropriately, works. It saves lives, either by curing the cancer (e.g., leukemias and lymphomas) or decreasing the risk of recurrence after surgery (e.g., breast and colon cancer). 8/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/chemotherapy-doesnt-work-not-so-fast-a-lesson-from-history/ …
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Basically, not only did
@Connealy_MD misrepresent this review as being in a much more prestigious normal than it was in and calling it a meta-analysis when it isn't, but, like cancer quacks everywhere, she inferred way more from it than is justified. 9/9Show this thread -
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