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To: combjelly who wrote (356563)	10/31/2007 4:02:11 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1573231

>Where did those numbers come from? Rudy. -Z

To: combjelly who wrote (356563)	10/31/2007 7:37:28 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573231

Found another stat that the US five year prostate cancer survival rate is 98% and Britain is 74%. Take your pick, socialized medicine is worse than what we already have. The fact remains, I will never believe that the United States, the greatest nation in the world, can become a better nation by adopting questionable practices of lesser nations. Message 24004366

To: combjelly who wrote (356563)	10/31/2007 10:28:19 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573231

The British government’s National Statistics Web site lists prostate cancer survival from 1999 to 2004 at 74.4 percent. The American Cancer Society says 99.9 percent of Americans survive prostate cancer.

To: combjelly who wrote (356563)	10/31/2007 10:29:12 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573231

Dr. Patrick Walsh, a prostate cancer expert from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, said there is no doubt that screening and treatment for prostate cancer in the United States is better than in England, but said the numbers don’t tell the whole story. "I don’t know where Giuliani got those numbers,” said Walsh, a university distinguished service professor of urology. “You can’t exactly compare death rates” because many prostate cancer patients technically die of pneumonia. Walsh said that when he travels to England, he sees patients frustrated with the level of national care.