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Old Mon Apr 5, 2010, 02:07 AM
lotusbud lotusbud is offline
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Post "Median survival"?

Hi you all,
recently I have been reading in the posts concern over survival times.
While reading literature, it seems that the survival is in "median survival", which would mean not all the concerned...
For example in the following Treatment and prognosis of the myelodysplastic syndromes, (http://www.uptodate.com/home/content...=leukemia/9134) and the following (Blood, Vol. 89 No. 6 (March 15), 1997: pp. 2079-2088)
International Scoring System for Evaluating Prognosis in Myelodysplastic Syndromes ,
they are clearly writing median. If I understand this correctly, and please advice if I do not, this would mean 50% have succumbed in the given number of years; not all. The other 50% is living much longer :)
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