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@northoftheborder

Thanks for sharing that.

I work with a different kind of data for a living, but still, I'll suggest using sites like that *very* carefully.

When you combine data from different sources and then try to extrapolate a new conclusion that wasn't the goal of the original studies, even a tiny error or wrong assumption can explode into seriously-wrong conclusions.

That happens even with full academic rigor like ethics boards and peer review, which is why you never trust the results of single study. When it's just a website that's convinced a single radiation oncologist to sit on its board and it's letting you generate arbitrary comparisons based on multiple independent variables, it might still be interesting, but I suggest swallowing it with a fistful of salt.

There's a very good reason that major research institutions like Mayo or the Cleveland Clinic don't offer this kind of thing.

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Spot on analysis! Caveat emptor on this one!

Also commenting strongly on info you haven’t looked into can be misleading.

There are a number of newer research papers that are not included in the graphs that you can pull and read as i did. They show the same trends as these graphs. You should look for them.

The graphs were originally created by Dr. Grimm because he was exasperated. The industry leaders could easily commission studies to create this data but they have not and will not.
Grimm has passed on and a foundation comprised of like 50 docs from around the world keep that website running and reviewed. Its all there on the website. Read.