Prognosis and cure of long-term cancer survivors: A population-based estimation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing evidence of cure for some neoplasms has emerged in recent years. The study aimed to estimate population-based indicators of cancer cure.

Methods

Information on more than half a million cancer patients aged 15-74 years collected by population-based Italian cancer registries and mixture cure models were used to estimate the life expectancy of fatal tumors (LEFT), proportions of patients with similar death rates of the general population (cure fraction), and time to reach 5-year conditional relative survival (CRS) >90% or 95% (time to cure).

Results

Between 1990 and 2000, the median LEFT increased >1 year for breast (from 8.1 to 9.4 years) and prostate cancers (from 5.2 to 7.4 years). Median LEFT in 1990 was >5 years for testicular cancers (5.8) and

SUBMITTER: Dal Maso L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6675712 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature