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They say a five year survival rate is pretty good for cancer, but when does those five years begin?
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From diagnosis: Usually people talk about overall survival which is from the time of diagnosis of the cancer. However, there are many other survival statistics used by cancer doctors (disease free survival, relapse free survival, time to treatment failure, etc.) which start at different times.
Answered 4/28/2012
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