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so how effective is chemotherapy really  

the contribution of chemo to a five-year  survival rate in adults in one report which  

i’m going to put a link down below in australia  it’s only 2.3 percent and if you live in the u.s  

it’s only 2.1 now what does that mean it means  that if you had a group of people who took chemo  

at the end of five years only 2.1 percent of  them would still be alive the rest would be dead  

now what i’m going to tell you is not meant to  replace your medical care check with your doctor  

before taking any advice i’m not telling you  in this video not to do chemo i’m just giving  

you information that i suggest that you need to  research there’s two really important definitions  

that i want to talk about one is relative risk and  the other is absolute risk when you’re being told  

the effectiveness of a drug or some treatment  you really don’t want to know the relative risk  

you want to know the absolute risk let’s say  for example before chemo it was found that two  

people out of 100 die and after chemo one out  of 100 would die what would the relative risk  

look like well it would look like this  chemo decreases cancer mortality rate by 50  

if you take the chemo you’ll have more than a  2x chance of surviving for five years so chemo  

will double your rate of survival that sounds  very hopeful doesn’t it let’s take a look at what  

it actually means now if we take a look at these  numbers okay and if we look at the absolute risk  

it gives a different picture chemo  decreases cancer mortality rate  

by one percent okay because we’re going from two  to one remember these are fractions they’re not  

whole numbers so drug companies and certain  people that want to make their study look  

way better than it really is will  always talk about relative risks okay  

and they won’t mention this right here if you have  cancer and you’re presented with chemo the only  

thing you want to know is how long will it prolong  your life right here that’s what you need to find  

out so you ask your doctor if i take this chemo  how much longer am i going to live that’s what you  

need to know and then after they tell you you want  to request the study and actually read it yourself  

to see if it matches up so we have two problems  number one we want to know what their definition  

of effectiveness is and number two we want to  know how safe it is because chemo is a poison  

because if it barely gives you any results and at  the same time it’s adding some major toxicity you  

want to really weigh out your choices now the  other thing that i would do if i was talking to  

an oncologist is i would want to know if they are  open to alternative therapy or natural type things  

because there is some significant science behind  using natural things to affect cancer and you just  

want to know if they’re open to it and if they’re  open to it great if they’re not all that tells you  

is they have a fixed idea and they’re unwilling  to look at the information that’s out there  

and the last thing i want to mention is if you  haven’t seen my interview with Dr. Seyfried  

on cancer i think you’ll find it very  interesting check it out i put it up right here