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Can you elaborate? In particular, this:

>>>>Five-year data indicate a significant progression-free survival benefit, with 60% of patients free of progression.

So far im with you.

>>>>Even after 60.2 months of follow-up, the median progression-free survival has not yet been reached [1]

This sounds awful? Or contradictory at best?

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>>>>Even after 60.2 months of follow-up, the median progression-free survival has not yet been reached [1]

> This sounds awful? Or contradictory at best?

No, quite amazing. At 5 years more than 50% of participants are progression-free. That's indeed off the charts for a metastatic lung cancer.

I believe the median progression-free survival is the length of time where 50% of people are still free from progression. The numbers you mentioned would mean that we don't know how long that is for this treatment but it's definitely longer than 5 years. That sounds pretty good depending on the type of cancer and stage when treatment started.

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