"WHoa!!!
They sure have pulled the wool over your eyes !! Baaahhhhh !!!!!
That is a definite distortion. What it says is that if the survival rate is 2
percent without chemo, etc and there is a 50 percent increase, that makes it 3
percent survival. The numbers are skewed to make it look good. Notice that it
says "relative survival rate". Keep looking through those rose colored
glasses.
It is a lot like the inflation numbers that the government uses. Subtract any
major increases such as oil, commodoties, etc to give an artificially small
number (in the case of inflation).
Another trick that they use is to show foreign statistice ( based on US
statistics )."
You've got it backwards. The "study" that folks point to
regarding the 2 - 3 % is a hoax and it's pulled the wool over the eyes of many.