Joint frailty model for recurrent events and death in presence of cure fraction: Application to breast cancer data.

In many biomedical cohort studies, recurrent or repeated events for individuals can be terminated by a dependent terminal event like death. In this context, the time of death may be associated with the underlying recurrent process and there often exists the dependence between the occurrences of recurrent events. Moreover, there are some situations in which a portion of patients could be cured.