the percentage of people still alive within a certain period of time after diagnosis or treatment. For cancer, a 5-year survival rate is often given. This does not mean that people can't live more than five years, or that those who live for 5 years are necessarily permanently cured.
The proportion of people diagnosed with cancer who are still alive after a given period, most commonly 1, 5 or 10 years after diagnosis.
The percentage of people diagnosed with a particular disease who are still alive after a given length of time, say five years, which is a common measure of success in cancer treatment.
A survival rate is measure of the net effect of natural pupil turnover from one year to the next, as pupils transfer to or from individual schools for a wide variety of reasons. See also "migration rate".
Proportion of patients alive at some point after their diagnosis of a disease. telomerase: Enzyme that is present and active in cells that can divide without apparent limit (for example, cancer cells and cells of the germ line). Telomerase replaces the missing repeated sequences of each telomere.
The percentage of people who survive for a given time period after treatment (for example, the 5-year survival rate is the percentage of people who survive 5 years).
Proportion of people alive at a given time after diagnosis (e.g. 5 year survival rate)
The percentage of people who live a certain period of time. For example, the 5-year survival rate for women with localized breast cancer (including all women living five years after diagnosis, whether the patient was in remission, disease-free, or under treatment) was 78/% in the 1940's, but in the 1990's it is over 97%.
Number of fish alive after a specified time interval, divided by the initial number. Usually on a yearly basis.
Expressed as a percentage of the total number of cases, survival rates indicate the proportion of people with the same disease that will be alive over a given amount of time. Usually it is expressed as a five year survival rate. Overall survival rate includes all causes of death, including cancer. Relative cancer survival rate removes all causes of death, except cancer.
The percentage of people with a particular cancer who have survived a given length of time.
The proportion of persons in a specified group (age, sex, or health status) alive at the beginning of an interval (such as a five-year period) who survive to the end of the interval.- Back
The number of fish alive after a specified time, divided by the number alive at the beginning of the period.
The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive for a given period of time after diagnosis. This is commonly expressed as 5-year survival.
In biostatistics, survival rate is a part of the survival analysis, indicating the percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive for a given period of time after diagnosis. Survival rates are important for prognosis, for example if a type of cancer has a good or bad prognosis can be determined from its survival rate.
