Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
It is not possible to make a certain evaluation. . . that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.
If persons in the untreated. . . group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported. . . In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data, since these patients do not then meet the criteria. . . of the term 'treated'. The longer it takes for completion of the treatment,. . . the worse the error.
Beginning in 1940,. . . questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. . . . the proportion of 'cancer' cures. . . increased rapidly.
The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. . . . Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly. . . are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.
My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.