cure rate

Recovery success frequency

Cure rate is the proportion of patients who recover completely from a disease or condition after treatment, typically expressed as a percentage.

Medical studies report cure rates to evaluate treatment effectiveness: The new therapy achieved a 90% cure rate.

The term appears most often in oncology, infectious disease, and clinical trial literature.

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treatment outcome measurement

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Deaths per population measured

death rate · fatality rate · case fatality rate · failure rate · survival rate

disease trajectory

cure rateinfection rate

Speed of disease spread

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