Becker's Healthcare September 4, 2024
Lung and bronchus cancers have the lowest five-year survival rate, according to the NIH National Cancer Institute’s “Cancer Trends Progress Report.”
The report includes data measures and trends related to cancer prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, life after diagnosis and end of life.
According to the report, survival rate is measured as the five-year relative cancer survival. This number is defined as the proportion of patients surviving cancer five years after diagnosis, calculated in the absence of other causes of death. The relative survival ratio takes the observed survival number in the patient group and divides it by the expected survival of a comparable group in the...
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