Chapter 1: New insight from cancer statistics

Most cancer patients are not cured, and we ask why? Since treatment fails to improve the life prospect of the average patient, it is obviously based on false premises, e.g., Halsted's hypothesis, according to which the tumor is the only threat to the patient. Yet there is more to cancer than just the tumor. Two hallmarks of cancer, cachexia, and paraneoplasia, are usually ignored, Yet they are the main reason for treatment failure, and cannot be ignored anymore.

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• Medicine
• cancer
• long survival
• chronic disease
• epidemiology
• statistics
• biostatistics
• breast cancer
• cachexia
• paraneoplasia
• hazard rate
• bi-modal hazard rate
• BMH
• Jerusalem
• Hebrew university
• faculty of medicine
• therapy
• dormancy
• remission
• relapse
• cancer progression
• pernicious cachexia