Median overall survival

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-005189",
  "term": "Median overall survival",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The length of time from either the date of diagnosis or the start of treatment for a disease, such as cancer, that half of the patients in a group of patients diagnosed with the disease are still alive. In a clinical trial, measuring the median overall survival is one way to see how well a new treatment works. Also called median survival.",
  "synonyms": [
    "median survival"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/median-overall-survival/"
}