These data may guide surgical counseling beyond
expected overall survival to include quality of life.
Not exact matches
Why the drug combination did not prolong the time before the disease progress — as might be
expected, because it did extend
overall survival — is not clear, the researchers said.
Some patients given both treatments lived significantly longer (years) than
expected, while the
overall median
survival increased by 59 % (2.6 months).
Median
overall survival, commonly referred to as median OS, is the time point at which 50 % of patients in a trial are
expected to have survived.
Chemotherapy reportedly may relieve the symptoms of nasal tumors for a number of months, but is not
expected to cure the condition or increase
survival time
overall.