median survival time

English

Noun

median survival time (countable and uncountable, plural median survival times)

(medicine, pathology) The length of time from either diagnosis or treatment in which one half of a sample of patients with a given disease are found to be, or expected to be, still alive.
Synonym: mean survival time

Usage notes

Not to be confused with median lethal time.

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