Patients “who have been failed by whole brain radiation therapy.”
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That’s horrible. We need to get rid of the idea that patients fail treatment - it’s rude, insulting, and straight up wrong.
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You’re right. The authors could have said “...recurrent solid tumor brain metastases ‘FOLLOWING or DESPITE’ WBRT” rather than failed
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Or “patients for whom WBRT has failed”
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Indeed. Unless you're the one being funded by a grant.
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This!!! See this all the time “patient failed diets x y z”. Noooooooo! Stop condescending talk. Now
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Or “patients who progressed.” Better: “cancers that progressed.” It’s the cancers that are affected by drugs.
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Thanks for the tag, Jerry. This is something I try to drive home in all of my talks. Still shocking to me to see it in print.
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