Comments on: Young People with Advanced Colorectal Cancer Do As Well with Chemotherapy as Older Patients http://fightcolorectalcancer.org/research_news/2010/06/young_people_with_advanced_colorectal_cancer_do_as_well_with_chemotherapy_as_older_patients We envision victory over colorectal cancer Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kate Murphy http://fightcolorectalcancer.org/research_news/2010/06/young_people_with_advanced_colorectal_cancer_do_as_well_with_chemotherapy_as_older_patients/comment-page-1#comment-5688 Kate Murphy Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:38:29 +0000 http://fightcolorectalcancer.org/?p=8704#comment-5688 Yes. Overall survival time in this study is a median -- half of patients died before the median overall survival time and half after. You may be interested in reading <a href="http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html" rel="nofollow">The Median Isn't the Message"</a> by Stephen Jay Gould. Dr. Gould's essay is on the website of cancer patient advocate Steve Dunn. Yes. Overall survival time in this study is a median — half of patients died before the median overall survival time and half after.

You may be interested in reading The Median Isn’t the Message” by Stephen Jay Gould.

Dr. Gould’s essay is on the website of cancer patient advocate Steve Dunn.

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Overall survival was 16.3 months for under 50 and 14.8 months for older patients

Does that refer to median overall survival?

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