Abstract
Relative survival rates in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) 'SEER' review of cancer in the USA are fitted by a model which can be used to estimate median survival time in any calendar year. It is argued that median survival times (MSTs) are better indicators of survival than 5-year relative survival rates (RSRs), especially when survival times are short.
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