Comments on: From unknown cancer gene to potential cancer drug http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/10/27/from-unknown-cancer-gene-to-potential-cancer-drug/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Sophia http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/10/27/from-unknown-cancer-gene-to-potential-cancer-drug/#comment-13459 Sophia Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:06:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=5653#comment-13459 May I point out that when you say "people could soon expect to survive up to 20 years after a diagnosis" you probably want to say: "the median survival time for patients could soon reach up to 20 years". Some patients do survive more than 20 years with fNHL already, and depending on the subgroup of patients analysed even the median survival tops 20 years in some publications. Sentences like yours unnecessarily scare patients and are a misinterpretation of survival statistics. May I point out that when you say “people could soon expect to survive up to 20 years after a diagnosis” you probably want to say: “the median survival time for patients could soon reach up to 20 years”.

Some patients do survive more than 20 years with fNHL already, and depending on the subgroup of patients analysed even the median survival tops 20 years in some publications. Sentences like yours unnecessarily scare patients and are a misinterpretation of survival statistics.

]]> By: Ron Kaminsky http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/10/27/from-unknown-cancer-gene-to-potential-cancer-drug/#comment-13458 Ron Kaminsky Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:32:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=5653#comment-13458 > by fusing it to an antibody called rituximab You talked about this antibody previously, but your phrasing makes it seem like your mentioning it for the first time. I found this confusing. > by fusing it to an antibody called rituximab

You talked about this antibody previously, but your phrasing makes it seem like your mentioning it for the first time. I found this confusing.

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