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by timr 786 days ago
I'm absolutely not criticizing the author. I can understand how you'd latch on to any little signal of hope in this kind of a situation.

Hell, I'd go so far as to say that the oncologists who are saying this stuff probably think they're doing the right thing, and are just trying to give desperate people something to hang on to. It's difficult. But it's still necessary to make it clear what these trials are.