Minimum follow-up time required for the estimation of statistical cure of cancer patients: verification using data from 42 cancer sites in the SEER database

BACKGROUND: The present commonly used five-year survival rates are not adequate to represent the statistical cure. In the present study, we established the minimum number of years required for follow-up to estimate statistical cure rate, by using a lognormal distribution of the survival time of thos...

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Autores principales: Tai, Patricia, Yu, Edward, Cserni, Gábor, Vlastos, Georges, Royce, Melanie, Kunkler, Ian, Vinh-Hung, Vincent
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1164404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15904508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-5-48

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1164404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15904508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-5-48

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