Oncology Acronyms
- A
- ADL: activities of daily living
- ANED: alive no evidence of disease
- C
- CCR: continuous complete remission
- CR: complete response, complete remission
- CRu: complete response unconfirmed
- D
- DFS: disease free survival
- DLT: dose limiting toxicity
- DOR: duration of response
- E
- EFS: event free survival (time from diagnosis to defined events, eg. death or recurrence of disease)
- F
- FFS: failure free survival
- G
- GPR: good partial remission
- M
- MTD: maximum tolerated dose
- N
- NED: no evidence of disease
- O
- OR: overall response
- ORR: overall response rate
- OS: overall survival
- P
- PD: progressive disease
- PFS: progression free survival
- PR: partial response (a reduction in total cross sectional area of all measurable tumours by at least 50%)
- Q
- QALY: quality adjusted life year
- QoL: quality of life
- R
- RFS: relapse free survival
- RR: response rate (percentage of patients with a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR))
- S
- SAE: serious adverse event
- SD: stable disease
- T
- TFI: treatment free interval
- TRM: transplant related mortality
- TTAT: time to alternative therapy
- TTP: time to progression of disease
- TWIST: time without symptoms or therapy
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