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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