"I'm very worried, " says Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
Otis Brawley, an epidemiologist and breast-cancer specialist who heads the American Cancer Society, notes such estimates are all statistical presumptions.
He's "one of the thought leaders in the field, " said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
"If you stop the Avastin, than the tumor comes back galloping, " says Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
This surprised me, and I asked Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society and a prostate cancer doctor himself, what he thought.
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Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, had been one big naysayer, arguing that previous studies of Provenge didn't offer a clear benefit.
"It is not unusual for someone to delay getting treatment for several weeks or several months, " Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society told CNN in July.
"We're hitting a lot of base hits that move the science but don't mean a lot to patients, " says Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
"What we are trying to say to men is the harms (of prostate screening) are better proven than the benefits, " said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
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But the rate of glioma over the past 35 years has actually remained pretty much flat, and actually decreased slightly, according to Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
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Similar to last year, my primary interest was the Digitial Health Summit which included Nationally recognized healthcare thought leaders like Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Reed Tuckson and Dr. Otis Brawley.
"Especially in prostate cancer, I have seen a bunch of survivor groups that are not very interested in basing things on science and are basing things on emotion, " says Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Otis W. Brawley.
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