veterans_lung_cancer_df: Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Study

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Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Study

Description

This dataset, veterans_lung_cancer_df, is a data frame containing information from a randomized trial of two treatment regimens for lung cancer. This is a standard survival analysis data set.

Usage

data(veterans_lung_cancer_df)

Format

A data frame with 137 observations and 8 variables:

trt

Treatment group (numeric)

celltype

Cell type (factor with 4 levels)

time

Survival time in days (numeric)

status

Censoring status (numeric)

karno

Karnofsky performance score (numeric)

diagtime

Time from diagnosis to randomization (numeric)

age

Age in years (numeric)

prior

Number of prior therapies (numeric)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'veterans_lung_cancer_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the PulmoDataSets package. The suffix 'df' indicates that this is a data frame object. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

Data taken from the survival package version 3.8-3

PulmoDataSets documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:41 p.m.