median survival time

Definition / meaning of median survival time

The time from either diagnosis or treatment at which half of the patients with a given disease are found to be, or expected to be, still alive. In a clinical trial, median survival time is one way to measure how effective a treatment is. Also called median overall survival and median survival.

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The Web site of the National Cancer Institute (http://www.cancer.gov/)

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