Thank you for your comments; however, these are the true 5-year survivors.
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- Survival calculationsSurgeryVol. 154Issue 3
- PreviewI wonder if there might be a mistake regarding the number of survivors in the article by Dr Ferrone et al concerning pancreatic resection.1 Their paper covers the years 1985 to 2010 at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and they claim an actual 19% survival rate, or 95 survivors of 499 resected patients, but show a Kaplan-Meier actuarial curve of 19% at 5 years.
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