Median survival reflects one time point along the survivalcurve and does not measure the overall survival benefit.
生存中值反映了生存曲线上的一个时间点，并不能测量总的生存期。
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In brain-cancer research, for example, while the numbers for average survivaltime haven't changed much, there's an increasingly long tail on the curve, indicating a few patients are living for years.