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Understanding
Prognosis & Cancer Statistics (NCI Fact Sheet)
Explains the concept of prognosis as it relates to cancer statistics
and to individual patients. [12/03]
"The
Median Isn't The Message" (Cancerguide)
Wonderful piece on cancer and statistics by Stephen Jay Gould, a Harvard
professor who was diagnosed with an incurable cancer. [5/02]
SCLC
Survival: 3 Years as a Minimum for Predicting a Favorable Outcome
(PubMed)
Abstract of a study published in the May issue of Lung Cancer to
define the minimum survival time indicating a significantly reduced risk
of recurrence of SCLC based on evaluating the survival of patients with
SCLC who underwent anatomic staging and treatment with chemotherapy including
combined chemotherapy and radiation. The study found that 3 years was
the shortest survival-time for predicting a significantly reduced risk
of recurrence of SCLC. [5/03]
Conditional Survival of Patients with the Four Major
Histologic Subgroups of Lung Cancer in Denmark (PubMed)
Abstract of a study published in the August 2003 issue of the Journal
of Clinical Oncology that suggests the discouraging 5-year survival
probability of patients with lung cancer is often reported without taking
into account changes in the survival probability as time advances from
diagnosis. Concludes that for patients surviving more than one year, the
conditional survival probability provides a more accurate estimate of
survival as compared with the conventional observed survival rates. [8/03]
Women & Survival - Recent MEDLINE Abstracts (PubMed)
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