The global survival rate calculated by Kaplan-Meier method in children with malignant lymphomas
Rugină, A.; Miron, I.; Moraru, D.; Tansanu, I.; Georgescu, D.; Mihăilă, D.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 110(3): 555-558
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 17571544 Document Number: 596072
The Kaplan Meier method is being used in oncology in order to calculate the survival rate during/at the end of the study. The purpose of this study is the assessment of the survival period referred to the clinical and histopathological state, laboratory findings, the diagnostic and treatment time. The material of the study is a LIMCO group (n=308 cases) hospitalized in the Oncology Department of the Children's Clinical and Emergency Hospital "Sf. Maria", Iaşi between 1980-1995. The LIMCO group was divided in 2 smaller groups: LMH group (110 cases) and a LMNH group (198 cases). The results statistical analysis was made by chi2, Long-Rank and Breslow test. The results established a series of favorable LIMCO prognostic factors referred to the clinical state I-II, the histopathological type, normal or pathological laboratory findings at the first admission and the quality of the remission after the multimodal treatment.