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From Shreverport Times | Feb 15, 2013
Is it better to leave kidney cancer patients alone?
The usual treatment for cancer are the big three: radiation, chemotherapy or surgery.
In an observation study conducted among 7,000 medicare patient with kidney tumors, it was found out that those who did not undergo surgery were twice more likely to survive than those who did. This was according to a study conducted by Dr. William Huang of New York University Medical Center. The results will be discussed in a medical conference in Florida later during the week. The research was earlier discussed in a telephone news conference sponsored by American Society of Clinical Oncology.
If surgery does not improve the outcome, then it is better leaving them alone.
In the US some 65,000 are diagnosed to have kidney tumors annually and about 13,700 are expected to die from the cancer.
What do you think of this observation study?
And yet doctors will always suggest/recommend agressive actions like surgery....
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