overall response rate

The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who have a partial or complete response to the treatment within a certain period of time. A partial response is a decrease in the size of a tumor or in the amount of cancer in the body, and a complete response is the disappearance of all signs of cancer in the body. In a clinical trial, measuring the overall response rate is one way to see how well a new treatment works. Also called ORR.