Half of Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients Get Nothing. We've Decided That's Fine.
Half of Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients Get Nothing. We’ve Decided That’s Fine. Right. Let’s have a proper butcher’s at what this study is actually saying, because the headline is doing that thing where it buries the lede so deep you need a sodding excavator to find it. Half of patients with metastatic lung cancer aren’t receiving treatment. Not because the treatment doesn’t exist. Not because they’re choosing palliative care with their eyes wide open. But because — and here’s where I get genuinely cross — the system has collectively shrugged and decided that’s acceptable. That’s not a statistic. That’s a choice. ...