How is time to death calculated in terminally I’ll patients?
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If you have a good doctor, they won’t just tell you “4 months”. They might eventually say that’s their best guess, but that’s not actually a diagnosis.
What accurate science does is look at past patients with similar diagnosis, symptoms, etc., and then report survival rates for different timeframes.
e.g. “50% of patients with your diagnosis live for 5 years, 10% live for 10 years”
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