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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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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, of course.5/
