kidney: Treatment of hypernephroma

kidneyR Documentation

Treatment of hypernephroma

Description

This study was undertaken at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to investigate survival among 36 patients with a kidney tumour (hypernephroma). Standard tangent included chemotherapy and immunotherapy, with some patients also having a nephrectomy, or surgical removal of the kidney. For further details, see Lee and Wang (2013).

Usage

kidney

Format

A data frame with 36 rows and 4 variables:

nephrectomy

integer indicator for nephrectomy (0=No; 1=Yes)

age

integer age group (1=<60; 2=60-70; 3=>70

time

integer for the follow-up time in months

status

integer for status at the end of follow-up (1=died; 0=censored)

References

Lee ET, Wang J. Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 2013, fourth edition. https://www.wiley.com/en-sg/Statistical+Methods+for+Survival+Data+Analysis%252C+4th+Edition-p-9781118095027


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