Re: Medical Research-Evidence


"Skeptic" <bcs002b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"George Conklin" <georgeconklin1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Prostate cancer treatments are being evaluated, such as the PIVOT
study. But some going on for 10 years have yielded no results yet,
strongly
suggesting that all current modes of treatment cure those who would not
die
of the disease anyway. Those who advocate PSA tests and aggressive
treatments now claim that the best results will show up AFTER 15
years!!!
But that is another 5 years out, and then it will be raised to 20.

There is recent 10 year data showing a survival benefit of surgery vs.
watchful waiting. It's long been known that survival benefit studies
would
need to go out at least that far except in metastatic cases.



Here is a comment from another newsgroup:

Both Dale and George are correct.

Dale is correct in that radical prostectomy has been shown to lower the
death rate due to prostate cancer (see the New England Journal of
Medicine article at:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/347/11/781).

George is correct in that radical prostectomy has been shown to have no
significant difference over watchful waiting in overall survival (see
the New England Journal of Medicine article at:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/347/11/781).

Now, what do you have to add with a link?


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