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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The five-year survival rate among African American women with breast cancer diagnosed between 1996 and 2002 was 77%, compared to 90% among whites--numbers the American Cancer Society attributes to the disparity in detection and poorer stage-specific survival. In the general population the five-year survival rate is 70% if lung cancer is caught at stage I (localized cancer), but only 5% at stage IV (distant metastases). The report compared five socioeconomic levels with five health indicators: child mortality rates; adult mortality rates; potentially avoidable deaths; five-year survival rates for cancer and acute public hospital admissions. |
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