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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Five year cure, …really?
Originally posted on Four-Square Clobbers Cancer:
Five-year relative survival rates describe the percentage of patients with cancer that are alive five years after their disease is diagnosed. Use of 5-year survival statistics is more useful in aggressive cancers that have a…
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