Aims People with depression are up to 72% more at risk to develop cardiovascular disease
(CVD) in their lifetime. Evidence-based psychotherapies are first-line interventions for the …

Background Survival from colorectal cancer has been shown to be lower in Denmark and
England than in comparable high-income countries. We used data from national colorectal …

We present mexhaz, an R package for fitting flexible hazard-based regression models with
the possibility to add time-dependent effects of covariates and to account for a twolevel …

Non-proportional hazards are common within time-to-event data and can be modeled using
restricted cubic splines in flexible parametric survival models. This simulation study …

In this article, I present the community-contributed stm ixed command for fitting multilevel
survival models. It serves as both an alternative to Stata's official mestreg command and a …

Simple Summary Sinonasal cancers (SNCs) are rare tumours of the nasal cavity and
paranasal sinuses with recognised or suspected associations with some occupational …

Background Patients living in more deprived localities have lower cancer survival in
England, but the role of individual health status at diagnosis and the utilisation of primary …

Objectives Parametric models are used to estimate the lifetime benefit of an intervention
beyond the range of trial follow-up. Recent recommendations have suggested more flexible …

Expected or reference mortality rates are commonly used in the calculation of measures
such as relative survival in population-based cancer survival studies and standardized …

Background Survival from metastatic cutaneous melanoma is substantially lower than for
localized disease. Treatments for metastatic melanoma have been limited, but remarkable …