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Critical survival periods in prostate cancer in Sweden explored by conditional survival analysis.

Kari HemminkiFrantisek ZitrickyKristina SundquistJan SundquistAsta FörstiAkseli E HemminkiOtto Hemminki
Published in: Cancer medicine (2024)
The data indicate that M1 metastases kill more patients in the first 2.5 years than between years 2.5 and 5 after diagnosis; T4 deaths are equal in the two periods, and in T3 mortality in the first 2.5-year period is lower than between years 2.5 and 5 after diagnosis. Conditional survival could be applied to explore critical survival periods even past 5 years after diagnoses and to monitor success in novel diagnostic and treatment practices. Improvement of survival in elderly patients may require clinical input.
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