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Otis Brawley

Otis Webb Brawley is a physician who is the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society.

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You are only one biopsy away from bankruptcy

– Otis Brawley

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The focus really needs to be broad spread of getting every American adequate care. And health care needs to be defined as prevention as well as treatment.

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Found on FOX News 8 days ago U.S.

We have been devastated by the coronavirus more so than any other country. We are 4% of the world’s population, more than 20% of the world’s coronavirus deaths.

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Found on FOX News 8 days ago U.S.

One of the problems has been that these patients don't get genetic sequencing or they get it so late they can't benefit from the drug.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Company News

Maybe these products cause cancer, maybe they don't, but maybe this is something that science simply just can not answer.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Over the past 20 years we are learning of a number of genes that can have a mutation. Some change our treatment.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

Traditional surgery is needed in some patients who have a history of bowel obstruction or other complications.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

If Otis Brawley trust that doctor and that doctor feels comfortable using the scope or the robot, my gut feeling is, it's OK to get that surgery done with the scope or the robot with that particular doctor.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'd love to do a study where you look at individual doctors and you look at individual doctor's outcomes.

– Otis Brawley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Then what typically happens is, you end up with a patient on a ventilator, in intensive care, with all kinds of drugs to support their blood pressure and other body functions, the quality of that person's life for their final days is absolutely awful.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

Frankly, these conversations do not happen enough in this country.

– Otis Brawley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

It also reinforces the linear relationship between drinking alcohol and cancer risk : The more you drink, the higher the risk, alcohol is estimated to be the third-largest modifiable risk factor for cancer, responsible for 5.6 % of cancers.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Survival analysis is prone to some biases, which can mislead even the most experienced of clinical trialists.

– Otis Brawley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

We have a lot of patients who spend their families into bankruptcy getting a hyped therapy that [many] know is worthless.

– Otis Brawley

Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

It literally misses as many prostate cancers as it finds.

– Otis Brawley