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Re: A Personal Statement from Iain Banks

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Post by drzaiusapelord » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #144

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #142

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Jobs, more than likely, would have survived if he didn't try "alternative" cancer therapies. Banks did everything by the book and his outcome is poor, but at least he tried properly. http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-refused-early-canc...

Jobs delayed his treatment by 6 months several years before he died. Call me crazy but in a better world, that shouldn't have mattered.

In cancer treatment, timing is everything. Catching it early and getting treatment early is key.

Re: A Personal Statement from Iain Banks

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Post by drzaiusapelord » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 7:38 PM UTC

meric wrote: post #285

Hannan wrote: post #151

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The 5-year survival for the earliest stage (I) neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer treated with surgery is 61%. The latest stage (IV) is 15%. Stage II puts you at about 50%. That just doesn't seem like he "more than likely" would have survived to me, but looks more like a coin flip. And that was with the "good" pancreatic cancer.

He survived for more than 9 years, so the coin flip was favourable.

On the back of the liver he janked by being a billionare able to own property near all the major transplant hospitals. Not to mention, 9 years of torture and misery with the last 2-3 more or less being a housebound invalid.

Re: A Personal Statement from Iain Banks

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Post by alxndr » Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

ebrenes wrote: post #341

alxndr wrote: post #177

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She talked about that on Colbert a little while back.

I couldn't find any interviews with Rowling on the Colbert Report, but I did find this for The Daily Show: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-15-2012/j-k--r... Was that the episode you were referring to?

Ah, that's the one.