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five-year survival

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five-year survival
Epidemiology The timespan that a person survives with a particular dread disease, in particular CA; 5YS facilitates standardization of survival statistics. See Cancer-free survival.


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Although it's very promising, we need to do more follow up to get the five-year survival data and determine the long-term survival.
Survival rate low The US National Cancer Institute puts the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer at 5.
National Cancer Institute statistics published in 2007 show that the five-year survival rate from prostate cancer is 100 percent when the cancer is still confined at the time of diagnosis.
 
 
 
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