Beral and Peto’s 2010 editorial on cancer survival statistics is unfounded, untenable, and inconsistent.1 Godlee reported in September 2010 that they were then too busy to defend it.2 The editorial is indefensible. It should be withdrawn. The editorial is unfounded. The provocative subtitle, “UK cancer survival statistics are misleading and make survival look worse than it is,” is pure conjecture. Conjecture becomes assertion, then …