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- Title
A Bayesian approach to mixture cure models with spatial frailties for population-based cancer relative survival data.
- Authors
Yu, Binbing; Tiwari, Ram C.
- Abstract
As the treatments of cancer progress, a certain number of cancers are curable if diagnosed early. In population-based cancer survival studies, cure is said to occur when mortality rate of the cancer patients returns to the same level as that expected for the general cancer-free population. The estimates of cure fraction are of interest to both cancer patients and health policy makers. Mixture cure models have been widely used because the model is easy to interpret by separating the patients into two distinct groups. Usually parametric models are assumed for the latent distribution for the uncured patients. The estimation of cure fraction from the mixture cure model may be sensitive to misspecification of latent distribution. We propose a Bayesian approach to mixture cure model for population-based cancer survival data, which can be extended to county-level cancer survival data. Instead of modeling the latent distribution by a fixed parametric distribution, we use a finite mixture of the union of the lognormal, loglogistic, and Weibull distributions. The parameters are estimated using the Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Simulation study shows that the Bayesian method using a finite mixture latent distribution provides robust inference of parameter estimates. The proposed Bayesian method is applied to relative survival data for colon cancer patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program to estimate the cure fractions. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 40: 40-54; 2012 © 2012 Statistical Society of Canada
- Subjects
CANADA; CANCER-related mortality; BAYESIAN analysis; LOGNORMAL distribution; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Statistics, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
0319-5724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cjs.10135