Table 5 Expected survival time (SD) without treatment (days). Expected survival time and standard deviation: 100 mL is taken to be a death size of the tumor in order to compute the expectation of the survival time. For example, if a tumor of 1 mL is observed, our model predicts the average survival time is 267 days, and its standard deviation is 29 days. Notice that the estimated death size is 121.6 mL.

From: Stochastic growth pattern of untreated human glioblastomas predicts the survival time for patients

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267(29)

264(29)

256(29)

242(29)

216(28)

190(27)

137(26)