Prostate Cancer Care as Cost Effective Medicine

See NY Times Prostate Cancer as a Test of medical care or over treatment? They ignored HIFU and immunotherapy as primary care. Perhaps a good government will encourage newer innovations that CURE cancer and not line the pockets of Oncologists. This 2nd NY Times article noting the abysmal % of patients in clinical trials and note that Oncologists LOSE $ on clinical trials! Oncologists have a Negative incentive to present Ctrials to their patients.

Radiation/Oncologists may have their own problems filling their machine usage. Here is a sample of a biasd article. Here is the reply by the highest medical source. A post operative patient has12 weeks post surgery to have effective salvage radiation! Read the NIH report because x-rays can cause secondary cancers.

I suspect that the National Science Foundation may have funds available to help support the use of clinical trials. It seems that the NIH and NCI are unable to help themselves in this area. This will require social engineering. What can you say to a patient after he has been given a death sentence and they want him to spend his remaining days involved in medical treatments that may not work. The use of placebos in lethal diseases where open label could be used is a questionable method. It may be good science but would you want it used against you?