effect of partial natural rubber replaced with synthetic rubbers, styrene butadiene and cis butadiene, on failure and strength properties of bias tread nr/br based compound was studied by efficient and conventional sulfur curing systems and mixtures of different carbon black grades. it was observed that failure behavior comprising tear resistance and crack growth in substituted compounds droppe...

Cure models are a popular topic within statistical literature but are not as widely known in the clinical literature. Many patients with cancer can be long-term survivors of their disease, and cure models can be a useful tool to analyze and describe cancer survival data. The goal of this article is to review what a cure model is, explain when cure models can be used, and use cure models to desc...

Cure models are a popular topic within statistical literature but are not as widely known in the clinical literature. Many patients with cancer can be long-term survivors of their disease, and cure models can be a useful tool to analyze and describe cancer survival data. The goal of this article is to review what a cure model is, explain when cure models can be used, and use cure models to desc...

Cure models are survival models basically developed to estimate the proportion of patients cured in a clinical trial. These models estimate the cured proportion and also the probability of survival. Cure models are a special type of survival analysis model where it is assumed that there are a proportion of subjects who will never experience the event and thus the survival curve will eventually ...

In population based cancer studies, cure is said to occur when the mortality in the group of cancer patients returns to the same level as that expected in the general population. The cure fraction is of interest to patients and also a useful measure when analyzing trends in cancer patient survival. Recently models have been introduced, so called cure fraction models, that estimates the cure fra...

BACKGROUND The probability of cure is a long-term prognostic measure of cancer survival. Estimates of the cure fraction, the proportion of patients "cured" of the disease, are based on extrapolating survival models beyond the range of data. The objective of this work is to evaluate the sensitivity of cure fraction estimates to model choice and study design. METHODS Data were obtained from the...