You may have heard that statistics can be used (presented in a way) to "prove" anything. In fact, eminent alternative and conventional cancer treatment researcher Lothar Hirneise devotes much space to the fallacies and lying associated with conventional oncology's "success" statistics (a “success” may for instance involve just a few months lived beyond expectation with severe impairment of quality of life, or ”tumor response” while the truly important thing is normally to prevent metastasis).