As
I ate breakfast one morning, I overheard two oncologists conversing. One
complained bitterly, "You know, Bob, I just don't understand it. We used
the same drugs, the same dosage, the same schedule and the same entry
criteria. Yet I got a 22 percent response rate and you got a 74 percent.
That's unheard of for metastatic cancer. How do you do it?"
His
colleague replied, "We're both using Etoposide, Platinum, Oncovin and
Hydroxyurea. You call yours EPOH. I tell my patients I'm giving them HOPE. As
dismal as the statistics are, I emphasize that we have a chance."
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by:
William M. Buchholz, M.D., Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul
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