Comment on King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the United States, we treat it very differently than in Europe. In Europe, it is more scented candles and holistic shit. In America, it’s aggressive treatments of surgery or chemotherapy.

  Europe has a much better life expectancy with prostate cancer.

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  • Skua@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If he gets the scented candle treatment it'll be because he's well into "alternative medicine", not because that's standard practice here. He has a track record of promoting homeopathy in particular

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  • baggins@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kingy has a reputation for holistic shite though. He recently appointed one of these charlatans to a senior post.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wanna hear something terrifying? Most chemotherapy drugs have never been proven effective at improving survival. nutritionfacts.org/…/how-effective-is-chemotherap…

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I'm not sure how much I trust nutritionfacts.org

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      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t have to. They don’t make claims of their own. They just report on research.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty gutless and dishonest, mod, when the claims being made are backed by verifiable fact and peer-reviewed science.

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      • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So - the first source there has no abstract available - did you look at it? Why include it when we don't know what it says.

        The second source - what exactly did you take away from that? What's your understanding of the phrase 'surrogate end-point'?

        The third source doesn't say chemotherapy is ineffective - it's saying that it is very unpleasant and there needs to be additional research on reducing general toxicity and therefore effectiveness

        The forth source is saying chemotherapy is expensive. No abstract available.

        At this point I give up the will to live - you aren't providing us with sources that demostrate your original claim that "drugs have never been proven effective at improving survival" - you're just throwing vaguely related links at us in the hope taht we won't look too carefully.

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