Estimating and modelling cure in population-based cancer studies within the framework of flexible parametric survival models

BACKGROUND: When the mortality among a cancer patient group returns to the same level as in the general population, that is, the patients no longer experience excess mortality, the patients still alive are considered "statistically cured". Cure models can be used to estimate the cure propo...

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Main Authors: Andersson, Therese ML, Dickman, Paul W, Eloranta, Sandra, Lambert, Paul C
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145604/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21696598
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-96
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