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...

Cure models are a special type of survival analysis model where it is assumed that there are a proportion of sub jects who will never experience the event and thus the survival curve will eventually reach a plateau. In population-based cancer studies, cure is said to occur when the mortality...