Cahpter 5: Cancer dormancy

Cancer hazard rates reveal more about cancer biology than any other statistical function.
Hazard rate in breast cancer proceeds through three phases. Following diagnosis and
treatment hazard rate rises (AB). By the third year it reaches its maximum whereupon it
declines to a minimum (BC). from there and onward it gradually rises to a second maximum
whereupon the patient dies (CD). This pattern is known as bi-modal hazard (BMH). It is unique
to cancer and does not appear in other chronic diseases. It is an epidemiological hallmark of
cancer. It is so typical of cancer that it distinguishes cancer from other chronic diseases.

http://www.what-is-cancer.com/papers/newmedicine/epidemiologyFrame.htm
http://www.what-is-cancer.com/papers/newmedicine/newmedicine0.htm

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