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survival curve

noun

  1. a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of survival curve1

First recorded in 1935–40
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To examine the effect of nanocapsules with the lactate oxidase enzyme, the team tested the approach in mice with melanoma and triple-negative breast cancer and performed tumor growth measurement, survival curve analysis, RNA sequencing, and immune cell population analysis.

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Non-parametric two-tailed Kolmogorov–Smirnov test; NS, not significant. d, Kaplan–Meier survival curve of human embryos following microinjection of Cas9 protein or sgRNA2b–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex.

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Non-parametric two-tailed Kolmogorov–Smirnov test; NS, not significant. d, Kaplan–Meier survival curve of human embryos following microinjection of Cas9 protein or sgRNA2b–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex.

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“We want more durable responses and more people at the tail end of the survival curve. I'm less excited about improving median survival ... than I am about seeing more patients in remission and off drug treatment.â€

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It permits their oncologist to open up new conversations that don’t include the latest million-dollar blockbuster therapy with a bleak survival curve but do mention the therapeutic benefit of teaming up with hospice workers to write letters, preserve photos and record memories.

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