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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Research Methodology
  • Survival Analysis

Background:

  • Censored time-to-event data often includes individuals who are cured, complicating treatment effect estimation.
  • Existing methods focus on parameter estimation in cure models, lacking causal interpretation.
  • Unobserved cure status due to censoring presents challenges in defining treatment effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose novel causal estimands for treatment effects on failure times in the always-uncured subpopulation.
  • To complement existing measures of treatment effects on cure rates.
  • To enable causal inference for survival outcomes in the presence of cures and censoring.

Main Methods:

  • Introduce principal stratification to define the always-uncured subpopulation.
  • Define two causal estimands: timewise risk difference and mean survival time difference.
  • Establish identifiability of these estimands using a substitutional variable for potential cure status.
  • Develop estimation methods based on mixture cure models.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the identifiability of the proposed causal estimands under ignorable treatment assignment.
  • Applied the methods to an observational study on acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment.
  • Provided insightful results on leukemia-free survival comparing different transplantation types.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed causal estimands offer a valuable approach to understanding treatment effects on survival in subpopulations that do not experience the event.
  • The methods are applicable to observational studies with censored time-to-event data and potential cures.
  • Findings can inform clinical decision-making for diseases like ALL.