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PFS

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-006568

The length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse. In a clinical trial, measuring the PFS is one way to see how well a new treatment works. Also called progression-free survival.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-006568
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Expansionsprogression-free survival
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-006568",
  "term": "PFS",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse. In a clinical trial, measuring the PFS is one way to see how well a new treatment works. Also called progression-free survival.",
  "expansions": [
    "progression-free survival"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/pfs/"
}

Record 13,053 of 17,717 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.