What is the difference between seeking a specialist versus a general oncologist?
The head of patient organization in Sweden will discuss the data with you. I mean, in Sweden we have, cancer register that you as a doctor, not involved. All patients are in the register with it. That date of diagnosis, date of death. And what we can see that, in our region, the survival is better.
Is there other factor affecting, the survival, that's to say, in large cities, the population are younger compared with the small cities. Is that affecting? We cannot. We found that was the reason. So my interruption is not me. My interruption is clinical trials, you know, getting so many new to our patients. So regardless in what shape you are as a, relapsed multiple myeloma patient, you will get treatment as long as we have this and this that qualify you to the clinical trial.
And I can give you several examples, some patients above the age of 80 that the include in in clinical trials respond to the canonical trials and surviving 4 or 5 years, more time than just, offering them, palliation. it's hand in hand, the larger the hospital is, the more attractive it is for pharma companies to do clinical trial. So it's not the individuals. But of course, if you if you serve a car, I mean, if you have a Volvo or Tesla and you give it to the Volvo guy that do hundreds a day, or you give it to a general, technician that the old car's not the best resource. Probably the the one that more advanced in just repairing Volvos.
I mean, it's the same thing with time. You get an experience, you get, knowledge about side effects and get knowledge of the effects. You can anticipates effect on, on patients. So, so I mean the doctor experience the better for the patient.
HealthTree • May 1, 2023