Median survivals from studies that include untreated patients with advanced cancer

Tumor histology	Disease stage	Median survival*	Reference
Colorectal adenocarcinoma	IV	5 to 6 months	Scheithauer 1993
Gastric adenocarcinoma	IV	5 months	Glimelius 1997
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	IV/recurrent	4 months	Kowalski 2000
Non-small cell lung cancer	IIIb/IV	4.1 months	Roszkowski 2000
		5.3 months	Attali 1987
		5.9 months	Cellerino 1991
	"Advanced disease"	2.5 months	Meta-analysis, BMJ 1995
Hepatocellular carcinoma	Unresectable	4.2 to 8 months	Llovet 2008, Cheng 2009
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma	IV	7 months	Huguier 2001
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma	IV, following failure of front-line gemcitabine chemotherapy (locally advanced inoperable or metastatic)	2.3 months	Pelzer 2011

* Values pertain to the subset of untreated patients.

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