Barb,
There's a lot of fluidity in the terms researchers are using these days….so it is hard to pin down exactly what is meant in a global way. Instead, you have to look at the particular paper in question to see how the researchers define their terms…sometimes it is in the body of the text, sometimes in the footnotes. This is unfortunate as it makes it hard to compare apples to apples from one study to another.
However, generally speaking an overall response MAY include ANY response whatsoever…. anything from a partial to a complete respsonse and sometimes even stable disease. It varies. Objective response usually means those that are defined by RESIST1.1 definitions. Immunologic response often includes an even broader spectrum of results.
Hope this helps. However, I don't think these definitions are essential in regard to the main points presented in these particular reports. Yours, celeste
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