Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Essay - Steven Lewis - The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness :: Longwoods.com
The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness
Steven Lewis
"The answer lies in its (The Fraser Institute) mission statement, helpfully reproduced at the end of the wait times report: “Our vision is a free and prosperous world where individuals benefit from greater choice, competitive markets, and personal responsibility.” Public health care sucks because it must suck, because it’s public. Therefore, let’s gather skewed estimates on a hot-button issue, retail them as hard data, and lure Canadians toward the promised land of private medicine."
Canada: Cancer wars: are we winning? - Health - CBC News
....But trying to answer the question of whether the war on cancer is being won means stepping into a contradictory tangle of statistics, anecdotes, hopes and fears.....
Clifton Leaf, author of an article in Fortune magazine called "Why We're Losing the War On Cancer," is one of the beneficiaries of the success against certain cancers affecting children.......
Leaf focuses on actual death rates, which haven't budged much in decades for the diseases that tend to be the hardest to treat: lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer.
Prognostic significance of L1CAM in ovarian (serous) cancer and its role in constitutive NF-κB activation
Background: Overexpression of L1-cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM) has been observed for various carcinomas and correlates with poor prognosis and late-stage disease. In vitro, L1CAM enhances proliferation, cell migration, adhesion and chemoresistance. We tested L1CAM and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) expression in tumor samples and ascitic fluid from ovarian carcinoma patients to examine its role as a prognostic marker.
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