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MFS

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-005340

The length of time from the start of treatment for cancer that a patient is still alive and the cancer has not spread to other parts of the body. In a clinical trial, measuring the MFS is one way to see how well a new treatment works. Also called metastasis-free survival.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-005340
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Expansionsmetastasis-free survival
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-005340",
  "term": "MFS",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The length of time from the start of treatment for cancer that a patient is still alive and the cancer has not spread to other parts of the body. In a clinical trial, measuring the MFS is one way to see how well a new treatment works. Also called metastasis-free survival.",
  "expansions": [
    "metastasis-free survival"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/mfs/"
}

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