Linear transformation models for survival analysis with tumor growth information in cancer screening study

• Published in: Communications in statistics. Theory and methods Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 1916 - 1926
• Main Author: Shen, Pao-Sheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Taylor & Francis 16.02.2017; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Cancer; Cancer screening studies; Left-truncated; Linear transformations; Mammography; Mathematical models; Medical screening; Primary: 62N01; Sampling; Screening; Secondary: 62N02; Semiparametric transformation model; Statistics; Studies; Survival; Survival analysis; Tumors

The complication in analyzing tumor data is that the tumors detected in a screening program tend to be slowly progressive tumors, which is the so-called left-truncated sampling that is inherent in screening studies. Under the assumption that all subjects have the same tumor growth function, Ghosh (...