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GiveMeFreedom

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15. Well,

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Mon Apr 1, 2013, 02:59 PM

Apr 2013

I for one like my SSDI, I make $2005.98 a month from the fund. I have cancer, fatal for sure, no cure. Having the ability to retire and enjoy what's left of my long life (I Hope) is very nice indeed.

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is a devastating disease. There are roughly 20-25,000 new cases per year in the United States and it is increasing for some reason. For patients who present with mRCC their median overall survival is only about 15 months and 90% of the patients won’t live 2 years. It is quite an aggressive disease.

Renal cell carcinoma comes in 3 different grades. There are patients that present with favourable risk, meaning that they have none of the 6 risk factors that physicians look at to determine the severity of disease. If you have favourable risk you have a reasonably good prognosis – the median overall survival is 43 months.

If you have 1 or 2 of the risk factors you are classified as intermediate risk and the survival drops down to only about 22.5 months.

If you are poor risk, meaning you have 3 or more of the 6 risk factors then the survival is only about 7.8 months.

I am in the first category, so far.

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Trends with benefits, This American Life drinks the kool aide. [View all] Warren Stupidity Mar 2013 OP

I think they are getting called out on it. Iris Mar 2013 #1

Here - Media Matters and International Business Times Iris Mar 2013 #3

Let us know. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #4

Look up! Iris Mar 2013 #5

NPR has come a long way from the Fire Sign Theater to this dreck . olddots Mar 2013 #2

Mostly it's being driven by people over 50 who can't get hired anywhere Warpy Mar 2013 #6

The stupid piece couldn't even substantiate that claim. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #24

I too was furious with that hack and her slanted piece of so called work. Bluenorthwest Mar 2013 #7

A woman I know lost her mother, for whom she was the caregiver LiberalEsto Mar 2013 #8

Not according to TAL. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #12

I only caught a few moments of it, and I was seeing red. Geoff R. Casavant Mar 2013 #9

The Bush administration's "gift" to NPR--a bunch of assholes hired by his appointees during his MADem Apr 2013 #10

I could be wrong but I don't think NPR has any government appointed directors. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #11

CPB does. And they have oversight over both PBS and NPR. Background.... MADem Apr 2013 #23

I remember when this happened. The Capitol Steps had a song about it... winter is coming Apr 2013 #26

I used to love going to see those guys--I am a fan of that kind of cleverness! MADem Apr 2013 #27

not the first time tal has presented the neolib POV HiPointDem Apr 2013 #13

Yeah, people just love poverty, that's why all the well-off are so eager to give their money away. bemildred Apr 2013 #14

Well, GiveMeFreedom Apr 2013 #15

Me Too otohara Apr 2013 #16

The American Life gets a lot right generally, but when they get something wrong... Javaman Apr 2013 #17

They have a good track record to owning up to their mistakes, though Orrex Apr 2013 #18

Me too. Javaman Apr 2013 #19

Yeah... Orrex Apr 2013 #20

So far they are "standing by the story" despite having already made corrections. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #21

Yeah, I saw that after I posted Orrex Apr 2013 #22

Oh and the "comment on" for this crap is exquisite. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #25

Wow truly sickening exchanges @ the NPR blog- lunasun Apr 2013 #29

Sadly those comments don't surprise me america was one of the earliest supporters of eugenics Arcanetrance Apr 2013 #31

did u listen to the very end? she realizes that no one in that town Liberal_in_LA Apr 2013 #28

Yeah that was the part where she almost fill into a pit of truth. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #30