Question: Survival rate recurrent colorectal cancers?
Answer: There are too many variables to give you a direct answer. How extensive was the cancer? Has it recurred in the same site or metasticized? What specific type of cancer was it? How early was it caught each time? If it has spread, where to?
Usually removing the rectum and affected parts of the colon gives good long term results. My grandmother's cousin had this kind of cancer when she was about 30 years old and had a colostomy at that time. She passed away last year at age 98. But if the cancer has spread beyond the colon, then there are a lot of other factors involved. You should ask your oncologist, who has a much better idea of what is happening in your specific situation than any of us possibly could.
Question: Since, for example, Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers? . . . is the Democrats' preference for THEIR system to cull the population, or what?
The mortality rate for colorectal cancer is about 40 percent higher in Europe and prostate cancer mortality is about 600 percent higher. (not exaggerating)
Answer: It's what happens when bureaucrats decide it's more important to give free asprin to the entire population than to provide chemotherapy, transplants or bypass surgery on demand for the few that really need immediate care.
The Federal Government does nothing well. Why would you want them running your healthcare? They are the problem--not the solution.
