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numbers referring to the same patient.
David Uhlman • Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use
leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare and lethal infiltration that brought with it a prognosis of only several months and the looming shadow of swift neurologic decline.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

When patients aren’t scared-to-death and rushed into treatment by their doctors, rates of spontaneous regression can be seen as high as 7% in renal carcinoma patients,[62] up to 15% in melanoma patients[63] and up to 20% in patients with low-grade lymphoma.[64] Some studies have recorded even higher rates of spontaneous regression.[65-68]
Mark Sloan • The Cancer Industry
“surgery to remove the primary tumor often terminates dormancy resulting in accelerated relapses.”[27]
Mark Sloan • The Cancer Industry
Les patients hommes (au nombre de 831) et femmes (178) interrogés dans le cadre de l’enquête (période 2002-2010) sont quasiment tous atteints de tumeurs primitives de l’appareil respiratoire (94 % des localisations), diagnostiquées à un stade avancé (45 % des patients sont atteints de métastases).
Annie Thebaud-Mony • Les risques du travail (French Edition)
Dr. Krokowski also stated that about 90% of patients die from metastasis or secondary tumors and “Therefore it should be of great concern to therapists as well as patients that already more than 30 years ago it was conclusively shown that cancer surgery is the main cause of metastasis.
Mark Sloan • The Cancer Industry
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
Patrick Ruckerpropublica.org