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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

Michigan, USA
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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Lynn O'Dalaigh

    Funny, then, that the mortality from, for example, breast cancer has been declining steadily for 30 years. It's decreased nearly 40% since then.https://twitter.com/Truecubbyblue15/status/981556957071990786 …

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    Lynn O'Dalaigh @Truecubbyblue15
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    I’d say the way the medical establishment has been treating cancer for the past 100 years or so is quackery. Surgery, radiation, & chemotherapy are not the answer.
    8:48 AM - 4 Apr 2018
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      2. StickIt2Stage4‏ @Stickit2Stage4 4 Apr 2018
        Replying to @gorskon @ESchattner

        "RATE has dropped because the denominator (#cases of breast cancer) has increased dramatically due to all the DCIS being diagnosed. The numerator (#deaths) hasn't budged in decades" .@stage4kelly 41,400 people will die from #BreastCancer in 2018, that's an increase in deaths.

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      3. Marc McDonald‏ @MarcMcD 4 Apr 2018
        Replying to @Stickit2Stage4 @gorskon and

        Yeah....so the RATE is what you use to measure success of treatment. The treatment isn’t responsible for the number of cases that present, obviously.

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      1. Tina Peterson Pirlot‏ @TinaPirlot 4 Apr 2018
        Replying to @gorskon

        @gorskon - the rate of death from breast cancer has NOT been declining. And the rate of diagnosis has been increasing- especially younger women with more aggressive cancers. 113 die each day from metastatic breast cancer.

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      2. Michael Baum‏ @MichaelBaum11 4 Apr 2018
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        And most of that fall in mortality was thanks to tamoxifen and the aromatase inhibitors. Furthermore the surgical and radiotherapeutic burden is getting less and less and the quality of these extended lives is getting better and better. References on request

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018
        Replying to @MichaelBaum11

        Good point. We don't do radical mastectomies any more. We do a lot fewer modified radical mastectomies—or just mastectomies. We now have tests that have led to fewer women receiving chemotherapy. We don't remove all the axillary lymph nodes nearly as often. The list goes on.

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      1. Matthew Prorok‏ @MJtheProphet 4 Apr 2018
        Replying to @gorskon

        If someone has a better answer, I'm open to it. They just need to show that it works, and how it works, and I'll be happy to change my mind.

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      2. Lindsay Jae Bisset‏ @Drlindsaybisset 4 Apr 2018
        Replying to @gorskon

        Ditto for paediatric cancers.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018
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        Pediatric cancers represent one of the greatest triumphs of science-based medicine.

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      2. (((Dan Kegel)))‏ @dkegel 4 Apr 2018

        Future tense, please :-)

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