sclerosis: Pilot study of treatment of severe systemic sclerosis (Nash,...

sclerosisR Documentation

Pilot study of treatment of severe systemic sclerosis (Nash, et al, 2007).

Description

Severe systemic sclerosis is a serious autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs including the heart, lungs, kidney, and skin. Between 1997 and 2005, a cohort of 34 patients was enrolled in a single arm pilot study of high-dose immunosuppressive therapy and autologous hetapoietic cell transplantation

Usage

data(sclerosis)

Format

A data frame with 34 observations on the following 3 variables.

day

time to death or censoring, in days

year

time to death or censoring, in years (day/365.25)

status

0 is censored, 1 is event

References

Nash, R.A., McSweeney, P.A., Crofford, L.J., Abidi, M., Chen, C.S., Godwin, J.D., Gooley, T.A., Holmberg, L., Henstorf, G., LeMaistre, C.F., others (2007). "High-dose immunosuppressive therapy and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for severe systemic sclerosis: long-term follow-up of the US multicenter pilot study" Blood 110 (4): 1388-.

Examples

data(sclerosis)
plot(bpcp(sclerosis$year,sclerosis$status))

bpcp documentation built on March 18, 2022, 6:25 p.m.