January 31st, 2011

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Doreen Benedict sought treatment for her breast cancer at Fox Chase Cancer Center, more than an hour from her home in Mount Laurel, based on the recommendation of a friend.

While the Northeast Philadelphia hospital is happy to get such word-of-mouth publicity, starting Monday it wants prospective patients to know about an even more concrete source of information:

Hard numbers on its website.

Fox Chase is posting graphs that indicate how many of its patients were alive five years after treatment for four common cancers: breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal.

Read the full story: Fox Chase Cancer Center’s website to tout mortality data