Cure models can be used to simultaneously estimate the proportion of cancer patients who are eventually cured of their disease and the survival of those who remain "uncured". One limitation of parametric cure models is that the functional form of the survival of the "uncured" has to be...

When the mortality among a cancer patient group returns to the same level as in the general population, that is, when the patients no longer experi- ence excess mortality, the patients still alive are considered “statistically cured”. Cure models can be used to estimate the cure proportion...