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Predictive value of a clinical score for overall survival following curative radiotherapy for lung cancer.

Medicine (Baltimore) · 2026 · PMC13286413 · PMID 42332461

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did not reach statistical significanceP = .691not close (p > 0.1)
While the favorable LabPS score group consistently exhibited numerically longer mean MFS times of 117.61 months (95% CI: 104.95–130.26; median not reached) compared with the unfavorable group (MFS mean: 99.97 months; 95% CI: 87.32–112.62; median not reached), the difference in MFS distributions between the 2 score groups did not reach statistical significance according to the log-rank test ( P = .691).

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a numerical trendno p-value reported
This suggests that while a favorable score is associated with a numerical trend toward better prognosis in secondary outcomes, the difference between the survival curves is not statistically robust enough in this specific cohort to reject the null hypothesis of equality. 4.

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