Re: Delayed Treatments for Prostate Cancer



"George Conklin" <georgeconklin1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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With news reports out that the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
has
found that delayed intervention for prostate cancer is better than
overtreatment, links to the August 16 journal site require you to PAY for
the article. Has anyone posting here paid or has a university
subscription
to the journal? What about some details? News reports are pretty bad on
the details. The fee is $28 for viewing for 1 day. Since authors do not
get paid for writing for these journals, and since most of the research is
paid for by the taxpayers in the first place, it is a disgrace that the
public cannot even read publically-paid-for research.

Does anyone here have access to the article and wants to post some
details?
I hope that these rip-off journals go out of business with the Feds trying
to make the research they pay for in the first place available to the
public
without having to pay $28 just to peek. Is it another medical disgrace.

link or specifics of publication?

The mortality rate from prostate cancer interventions is exceedingly low so
your above claim is likely to a misunderstanding or just bad data. There
have been plenty of recent studies, as previously discussed here ad nauseum,
that show that prostatectomy improves both disease specific AND overall
survival.

As for your complaining about having to pay for things - this *** isn't
free George. Lay people will eventually get the watered down and dumbed
down version, but if you want to be up to date on cutting edge information
with medical journals, pay up. The research is costly, the publications,
the review process, everything - it is an expensive operation.


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