The five-year survival rate is a type of survival rate for estimating the prognosis of a particular disease, normally calculated from the point of diagnosis. Lead time bias due to earlier diagnosis can affect interpretation of the five-year survival rate. There are absolute and relative survival rates; the latter are more useful and commonly used....
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The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive five years after they were diagnosed with or treated for a disease, such as cancer. The disease may or may not have come back.
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The proportion of patients still alive five years after a diagnosis or form of treatment is completed. Usually applied to statistics of survival of cancer patients, since after five years, recurrences are much less likely to occur. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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an expression of the number of survivors with no trace of a given disease five years after each has been diagnosed or treated for the disease.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. the proportion of patients still alive 5 years after a diagnosis or form of treatment is completed. Usually applied to statistics of survival of cancer patients, given that after 5 years, recurrences are much less likely.
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