In the 35 years I have been involved in cancer care, I have seen many people make liars out of statistics – outliving their prognoses or going into complete remission. I always wonder what factors enabled that person to be an “outlier” and successfully “beat the odds”?  Shouldn’t we study them more closely? Indeed, Caryle Hirshberg and her co-author Marc Ian Barasch (a cancer survivor) in Remarkable Recovery: What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us about Getting Well and Staying Well have called for the creation of a Remarkable Recovery Registry based on the National Tumor Registry to examine these cases more closely to determine independent factors that contribute to healing.