The Goat Pen

British study says that chemotherapy is responsible for an alarming number of deaths, not cancer when chemo is used to extend life. No idea if British socialized medicine plays a role in these numbers or not.
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Patients should be warned about the dangers of chemotherapy after research showed that cancer drugs are killing up to 50 per cent of patients in some hospitals.

For the first time researchers looked at the numbers of cancer patients who died within 30 days of starting chemotherapy, which indicates that the medication is the cause of death, rather than the cancer.

The study by Public Health England and Cancer Research UK found that across England around 8.4 per cent of patients with lung cancer, and 2.4 per cent of breast cancer patients died within a month.

But in some hospitals the figure was far higher. In Milton Keynes the death rate for lung cancer treatment was 50.9 per cent, although it was based on a very small number of patients.

At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals the 30 day mortality rate was 28 per cent for palliative chemotherapy for lung cancer, which is given when a cure is not expected and treatment given to alleviate symptoms.

Deaths of lung cancer patients from chemotherapy were also far higher than the national average in Blackpool, Coventry, Derby, South Tyneside and Surrey and Sussex, according to the research.

Similarly, around one in five people who underwent palliative care for breast cancer at Cambridge University Hospitals died from their treatment.

Public Health England (PHE), said it had contacted the hospitals concerned to ask them to review practices.

Dr Jem Rashbass, Cancer Lead for PHE, said: “Chemotherapy is a vital part of cancer treatment and is a large reason behind the improved survival rates over last four decades.

“However, it is powerful medication with significant side effects and often getting the balance right on which patients to treat aggressively can be hard.

I would drink her bathwater for a chance at her

Jewel has aged well...and yeah, the teeth cracks were good ("Jewel is going to leave, but her teeth will hang out a little longer...").

That crack about Pete's dad ("listen, I don't think it's appropriate to keep talking about Pete's dad. This is not a roast of Pete Davidson's father...that happened in 2001"), almost crossed the line. Shit was still funny, though.

If I ever got roasted, there is no way I'm bringing my wife and kids. Actually, there is no way I'm getting roasted. Flava Flav's kids left the taping when he was roasted.

I probably could have done it back in the days when they weren't taped. I think when Dean Martin started in on them, they were taped but not broadcast widely. No way I would ever do it now (not like there is a chance). Bieber was the smartest...because the roast of a 21 year older is not going to be bad, no matter how hard they go at it.

Lisa Lampinelli has gone nice and doesn't do the roasts anymore. She was the most vicious.

sardis wrote:"I didn't want to badmouth Jewel since God already did that to her..."

That was an awesome cut. Having said that, for her, I would leave the wife and kids on Christmas morning while they were opening presents.

I demand a check for use of my likeness in this post. Thanks.

Back when Amy Schumer was a relative unknown, she did a couple of those roasts. In one she made some crack about Steve-O's friend who died doing one of their crazy Jackass stunts, something to the effect of "so sorry about your friend, everyone wishes it had been you." He was visibly pissed...

The Bob Saget roast was the best...

Gilbert Gottfried's lines still crack me up. "Bob Saget is so gay, his asshole is a smiley face..."

BigRedMan wrote:

sardis wrote:"I didn't want to badmouth Jewel since God already did that to her..."

That was an awesome cut. Having said that, for her, I would leave the wife and kids on Christmas morning while they were opening presents.

I demand a check for use of my likeness in this post. Thanks.

I thought it was from Norstrom.

Bklyn wrote:Gilbert Gottfried's lines still crack me up. "Bob Saget is so gay, his asshole is a smiley face..."

I thought that one was directed at Jon Lovitz. Another good crack on him was "There hasn't been a more effeminate jew in the closest since Anne Frank"...

Milo whathisname is saying that Glenn Beck's The Blaze has about 2 weeks left of solvency if it doesn't get a DIP loan (I'm not going to bother looking up what DIP stands for).


Wow...talk about a casualty of Trump, Beck went insane.

speaking of insane

http://fortune.com/2016/09/06/goldman-e ... ump-pence/

Debtor in possession

The story of John O' Neil, the FBI agent who tried to warn everyone about Osama Bin Laden, runoft from the FBI and ended up taking the job of Head of Security at the World Trade Center

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/showsknew/

sardis wrote:"I didn't want to badmouth Jewel since God already did that to her..."

That was an awesome cut. Having said that, for her, I would leave the wife and kids on Christmas morning while they were opening presents.

They'd probably leave you first.

You fuckers get roasted every day here. What's the difference? I would love to be roasted. It would be fun. Not like I haven't heard it all before.

New York Post columnist weighs in on BLM (she's white and wrote a book called The War on Cops)

http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/the-lies-t ... -movement/

New York Post columnist weighs in on BLM (she's white and wrote a book called The War on Cops)

http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/the-lies-t ... -movement/

Unarmed.

Chicago

eCat wrote:New York Post columnist weighs in on BLM (she's white and wrote a book called The War on Cops)

http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/the-lies-t ... -movement/

Bravo. The author makes a straw man (BLM movement built on lie that there is an epidemic of cops shooting blacks) and then knocks it down (stats show there is no epidemic).

If I'm not mistaken the BLM is a result of a handful of well-publicized cases where unarmed blacks wound up dead at the hand of LEOs and justice was viewed as inadequately served. Sorta like a half dozen O.J. Simpson verdicts all within a short span of time. Except there were videos and audios and better forensics and all different signs pointing to the fact that the victims didn't deserve their ultimate fate.

No, I suspect there's no more shootings of these kind than there were 10-20-50 years ago. But there's a shit-ton of cell-phone and store-front video out there now. Maybe soon enough there'll be a clip of a white child getting gunned down by a cop while holding a toy.