A 5 year survival rate does not mean you only have 5 years left to live.
A 5 year survival rate is just a percentage that indicates the proportion of people that have a particular disease that will be alive 5 years after diagnoses.
Some people live shorter than 5 years and some people liver longer than 5 years depending on the disease and progression of the disease.
The overall survival rate is often stated as a five-year survival rate, which is the percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive five years after their diagnosis or the start of treatment.
Also called survival rate.
A mortality rate is the number of people who die every year of a given cause in a specific number of people (often 100,000).
The survival rate is how many people are still alive at a specific time after diagnosis.
If the 5-year relative survival rate for a specific stage of pancreatic cancer is 50%, it means that people who have that cancer are, on average, about 50% as likely as people who don't have that cancer to live for at least 5 years after being diagnosed.
A prognosis is the doctor's best estimate of how cancer will affect you and how it will respond to treatment.
Survival is the percentage of people with a disease who are alive at some point in time after their diagnosis.
Five-year relative survival rates describe the percentage of patients with a disease alive five years after the disease is diagnosed, divided by the percentage of the general population of corresponding sex and age alive after five years.