A widely used cancer survival number ("statistic") is "5-Year Relative Survival". In medical papers one often sees "median survival".
Assuming the two are of the same thing - say, Stage 4 Colorectal cancer - is there a known distribution function which connects the two? One which is, perhaps, often used (but rarely mentioned)? Or is it known that this function varies a lot, by cancer type perhaps?
I tried searching the literature, but came up empty.
Assuming the two are of the same thing - say, Stage 4 Colorectal cancer - is there a known distribution function which connects the two? One which is, perhaps, often used (but rarely mentioned)? Or is it known that this function varies a lot, by cancer type perhaps?
I tried searching the literature, but came up empty.
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