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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (18860)	8/17/2010 7:34:36 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Effective enough that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Ovarian Cancer National Alliance organizations want it available. You were never in favor of treatment at any cost....especially for minorities... No, that was you who has always been in favor of substandard treatment for minorities.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (18860)	8/17/2010 9:49:01 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

How effective is Avastin in the treatment of breast cancer, and at what cost?? I don't think most of us know because of the misleading statistics that have been bandied about, like how it extends the average brain cancer patient's life by "two months", which gives no consideration at all to the variance of these results. For those cases where it is effective it can be VERY effective. Means are being developed to establish whether a patient is likely to respond favorably to the treatment.