five-year survival
Cancer prognosis metric
Five-year survival is a medical benchmark indicating that a patient remains alive five years after diagnosis or treatment, typically for cancer.
It's a standard measure for comparing treatment effectiveness and prognosis across diseases and populations: The five-year survival rate for early-stage breast cancer exceeds 90 percent.
Reaching this milestone doesn't mean cured—some conditions recur later—but it marks a significant threshold in oncology.
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- stage fourMost advanced disease level
diagnosis · early detection · mortality · chemotherapy · tumor · recurrence · staging · biopsy · metastasis · treatment · radiation · odds · beat the odds · statistics · clinical · baseline · relapse · benchmark
five-year survivalterminal diagnosis
Illness expected to kill
poor prognosis · incurable disease · death sentence · hospice care · treatment failure
five, fives, fifth, fifths, fifteen, fifteenth, fifty, fiftieth, year