Hi all,
May i know does R has packages or code to run "Bayesian Relative Survival Analysis"? I have look through Bayesian Survival Analysis(2001) by Joseph George Ibrahim<http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Joseph+George+Ibrahim%22>, Ming-Hui Chen<http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Ming-Hui+Chen%22>, Debajyoti Sinha<http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Debajyoti+Sinha%22> and would like to try out bayesian relative survival analysis in R.

>From http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html, i know that the package relsurv<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/relsurv/index.html> is for Relative survival and the package splinesurv<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/splinesurv/index.html> is for Nonparametric bayesian survival analysis.
(For your information, relative survival is the method of choice for estimating patient survival using data collected by population-based cancer registries although its utility is not restricted to studying cancer( Dickman and Adami 2006; Dickman et al. 2004).”, which is a concept defined by Berkson (1942) and Berkson & Gage (1950).Two data files are required in order to estimate relative survival; a file containing individual-level data on the patients and a file containing expected probabilities of survival for a comparable general population.)

Both the paper, Spatial variation in prostate cancer survival in the Northern and Yorkshire region of England using Bayesian relative survival smoothing<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600701/> and A Bayesian geoadditive relative survival analysis of registry data on breast cancer mortality. <http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1881/1/paper_515.pdf> use Bayesian relative survival analysis. Hence, i was wondering if this is possible in R.

Thanks a lot.
Your Sincerely,
Vincent He

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