The Washington Post has factchecked this statement of Rudy Giuliani’s…

I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chances of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States: 82 percent. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44 percent under socialized medicine.”

…and have found problems with it:

As factual support for the presidential candidate’s claim, his campaign cited an article by David Gratzer that appeared in the City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative New York think tank, slamming the Canadian and British systems of “socialized” medicine. The article provides no sources for its assertions about five-year survivability rates for prostate cancer.
Experts from the National Cancer Institute and the urology departments at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Kansas agreed that Giuliani’s figures were way out of date, if they were ever accurate at all. The latest official figures for five-year “survivability” rates for prostate cancer are about 98 percent in the United States and 74 percent in England.

So, Rudy was wrong. American doctors are better than he thought. English doctors are better than he thought, too, but still not good enough. Here’s the best part. The Wa Post defends the British doctors:

More important, the survivability figures tell us little about the differences in the quality of treatment received by prostate cancer patients in the United States and Britain. Doctors in each country have different philosophies about how to treat the disease, and these differences have greatly influenced the survivability statistics.

The American philosophy: Live. The British Philosophy: 3/4 live.