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Re: MEMORIAL SLOAN NOMOGRAM - PROSTATE CANCER SURVIVAL
GW,
The more you read and understand the less angry you will become. Cancer is unpredictable with the information we know now. In a few more years when good DNA analysis is available, then a Doctor will be able to say with some certainty as to how the cancer will behave. The way it is done now is to look at the shape of cancer cells to see how deformed they are and use that to guess as to how bad the cancer is and what will happen. Not the best system and the reason why oncologists sometimes get surprised; pleasantly and unpleasantly.
