[andyst]

Having been through similar processes with family, scouring medical journals and trials for the answer as if its stack overflow, you're in a period of high stress I think I can understand that may have led to the authors perspective and expectations shaping the narrative here.

[timr]

I'm absolutely not criticizing the author. I can understand how you'd latch on to any little signal of hope in this kind of a situation.

Hell, I'd go so far as to say that the oncologists who are saying this stuff probably think they're doing the right thing, and are just trying to give desperate people something to hang on to. It's difficult. But it's still necessary to make it clear what these trials are.