The five-year survival rate is a term used in medicine for estimating the prognosis of a particular disease.
Analysis performed against the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (SEER) facilitates calculation of Five-year survival rates.
Lead time bias due to earlier diagnosis can affect interpretation of the five-year survival rate.
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