by Writing about Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi’s miraculous recovery since being released from a Scottish prison, Abe Greenwald notes:
Take a look at cancer-survival rates under the British medical system we’re now tenaciously emulating in the U.S.
From the Concord study published in 2008 in Lancet Oncology: The five-year survival rate for breast cancer in the U.S. is roughly 84%. In the U.K., it is around 70%. Overall survival rates from all cancers in males is 66% in the U.S., 45% in the U.K. For prostate cancer specifically, the rather astounding numbers are 92% in the U.S. versus 51% in the U.K. [emphasis added]
In the UK, nearly half of all prostate cancer is terminal. In the U.S., nearly all cases are survivable.
Anyone else see this as a problem?
