What is the survival rate for people with liver cancer

What is the survival rate for people with liver cancer

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I’m sorry but the survival rate for liver cancer is low. In general liver cancer survival rate depends on:the stage of the MORE

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Q: Mickey Mantle played his way into the pantheon of baseball bods, and drank his way to the brink of death. So in today’s cynical debate over health-care priorities, Mick’s record drinking would drop him to the bottom of the list for a life-saving transplant. Chilling but ture. He’s over 60 and was an alcoholic for most of his life, a choice that helped make him as sick as he is today. Then there’s his age and hedical condition,which would put his chances at about 60 percent for surviving a liver transplant for five years or more. The cynics would say Mick is a poor risk indeed. They are wrong. Such a heartless and politicized point of view has gained strength ever since 1984, when former colorado governor Richard Lamm made the famous declaration that the terminally ill have a “duty to die and get out of the way. Let the others in society, our children, build a reasonable life.”he said. What kind of a reasonable life is it when politicians decide whether it is a good risk to save a human life? But lamm had more to say on modern technogy, exactly the kind that could save Mickey Mantle. “How many hearts should we give to a smoker…how many liver transplants can we afford to give to an alcoholic,” he asked, implying that one was too many. In Oregon, Lamm’s legacy lives on in something called the Oregon Health Plan, a “medical rationing” welfare program started in February 1994. The plan prioritizes 565 diseases and their treatments based on how effective the treatments are and how much they cost. Transplants for liver cancer patients are not funded. Can we trust the politicians to do the right thing for the sickest and poorest among us? In Oregon, the health professionals decide what diseases and treatments go on the list and then a computer determines treatment priorities based on death rates and costs. But the politicians decide how much money is spent. No matter what the proponents say, the Oregon system rations people out of care simply by denying them medical services because some politician doesn’t like the survival odds or costs. Fortunately, Mick won’t have to worry about getting a chance at a liver transplant. Get well, Mick, before the most cynical of the health-care reformers do us all in.Like this format：In the article ” Mick’s Toughtest Inning”(from The New York Post),Cathy Burke___that___.

A: In the article “Mick’s Toughtest Inning” (from The New York Post), Cathy Burke argues that all patients are entitled to organ transplants, regardless of whether they take good care of their bodies.