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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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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2005
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| 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 |