Estimating and modeling the cure fraction in population-based cancer survival analysis

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 576-594

  Lambert, Paul C ^a   Thompson, John R ^a   Weston, Claire L ^a   Dickman, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cure models; Relative survival; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OVARY TUMOR; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WALES;

EID: 34648828972     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxl030     Document Type: Article

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