• tomselleck@sopuli.xyz
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    24 hours ago

    They really don’t have people on dialysis that long anymore. My best friend is currently on dialysis.

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      10 hours ago

      Different sites will have different patient populations, but large cohort data shows 5 year survival rate of ~40% and 10-year survival rate of ~10%. Not common, but not particularly unusual.

      Reference figure 3