Cure Models: Methods, Applications and Implementation is the first book in the last 25 years
that provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the basics of modern cure …

Background & Aims The popular sense of the word “cure” implies that a patient treated for a
specific disease will return to have the same life expectancy as if he/she had never had the …

Importance Recent insights into the biologic characteristics and treatment of oropharyngeal
cancer may help inform improvements in prognostic modeling. A bayesian multistate model …

Multimorbidity constitutes a serious challenge on the healthcare systems in the world, due to
its association with poorer health-related outcomes, more complex clinical management …

Estimating the lengths-of-stay (LoS) of hospitalised COVID-19 patients is key for predicting
the hospital beds' demand and planning mitigation strategies, as overwhelming the …

We propose a class of cure rate models motivated by analysis of colon cancer and triple-
negative breast cancer survival data. This class is indexed by an adaptive activation …

Large‐scale association analyses based on observational health care databases such as
electronic health records have been a topic of increasing interest in the scientific community …

Background Accurate, individualized prognostication in patients with oropharyngeal
squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is vital for patient counseling and treatment decision …

In clinical studies, multi‐state model (MSM) analysis is often used to describe the sequence
of events that patients experience, enabling better understanding of disease progression. A …

Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a frequent complication following hematopoietic
cell transplantation (HCT). Research on risk factors for acute GVHD has tended to ignore …