The statistics
of mesothelioma survival rates gives vital information to patients about their
prognosis. There is an improvement in the survival rates of mesothelioma due to
new treatments. When I mean survival rates, they are the statistics that helps
explain a cancer patient prognosis. These statistics may determine how long a
patient can expect to live. However, there might be some slight errors in
survival rates, patients should never expect a total assurance in the
statistics used in explaining their prognosis, this is due to the fact that
there are several errors that affects the way survival rates are been
explained.
Factors
that can affect survival rates
*Survival rates cannot account f or new treatment options.
*Survival rates don’t always reflect current data.
*Survival rates include cancer patient who did not receive
treatment from mesothelioma specialist.
While the
survival rates of mesothelioma patients tends to be low, the overall survival
rates area improving due to enhanced treatment option. Patients should note
that survival rates are not a guarantee of an individual patient’s life
expectancy. Many patients are lucky to have outlived their prognosis because
survival rates did not catch up with them.
There are
several factors through which mesothelioma survival rates are conveyed, they include;
location of tumor, cancer stage, histology or cell type, age, gender. Most of
these factors have been explained in my previous posts.
In conclusion,
survival rates present the patients an approximation of how long othe people
with similar diagnosis survived.
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