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Survival Rate  

What does a rate of survival for cancer mean?

A survival rate for a specific treatment of a particular type of cancer is the percentage of patients that are alive (i.e., the percentage of survivors) at a given period of time following diagnosis and completion of the therapy.

Comparison of survival rates of different treatments is a way to evaluate the relative efficacy (i.e., effectiveness) of the different therapies.


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