Ovarian Cancer: New Measure of Benefit Proposed - HOPE study

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.....Conditional disease-free survival, however, takes into account changes in the probability of remaining disease-free over time, as well as the amount of time since achieving remission, Dr Diergaarde explained.....

.....Although conditional disease-free survival always increases as the number of years spent in remission increases, certain subgroups in this study experienced larger increases, Alexia Iasonos, PhD, a biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, pointed out in an accompanying podcast.