Term: relapse-free survival

Pronunciation: (REE-laps … ser-VY-vul)

Description:

In cancer, the
length of time after primary treatment for a cancer ends
that the patient survives without any signs or symptoms of
that cancer. In a clinical trial, measuring the
relapse-free survival is one way to see how well a
new treatment works. Also called DFS, disease-free survival, and RFS.