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The Conditional Survival Statistics for Survivors with Primary Supratentorial Astrocytic Tumors
Background. Relative survival rates can offer a general description of tumor outcome and, traditionally, are used for surveillance and comparison purposes. However, they are not informative for individual tumor ...
