Don't Tase Me Bro
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Well, this new source you're citing is claiming the relative survival rates for prostate cancer are 99.3% in the US (a ludicrous figure, unless it's a 5-year survival rate only) versus 77.5% in the UK (quite possible, but still markedly different from the 44% UK survival rate your other source claimed).
That 77.5% figure is not the UK. That is a European average and it is a significant difference between there and here.
It seems to me that your study is skewed in the following way: I'll bet they're comparing five year survival rates for the US (which the ACS claims is 100%, but which could easily be 99.3%) to ten or fifteen year survival rates for the UK (even in the US, the 15-year survival rate is only 76%).
There is no law against publishing skewed studies on medscape in service of an agenda... an agenda such as, say, maligning national health care.
Well then, feel free to prove to us that's all a big lie and a massive conspiracy on the part of Medscape. I can give you plenty of other sources that will confirm the same information, but frankly, I'm tired of doing it for you. You have Internet access. Try taking a few minutes to learn something and look the stuff up yourself. I have given you plenty of numbers and sources to back up everything I have been telling you. You have provided absolutely nothing except your own preconceived idea of the way you "think" things should be and you ignore any evidence on the contrary and go as far as to suggest a grand conspiracy.
You're uninformed on this topic. If you're comfortable being a lamb led to its slaughter by power hungry politicians then that's your prerogative.