Cumulative Survival Rate Definition

Cumulative Survival Rate:

The proportion of survivors in a group, e.g., of patients, studied and followed over a period, or the proportion of persons in a specified group alive at the beginning of a time interval who survive to the end of the interval. It is often studied using life table methods.

Synonym: mean survival time, survivorship, survival rate.

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