R/esophagus.R

In survSAKK: Create Publication Ready Kaplan-Meier Plots

#' SAKK Esophagus Cancer Data
#'
#' @description
#' This anonymized data contains survival data from patients with resectable esophageal carcinoma
#' to compare the outcomes of two treatment regimens: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
#' followed by chemoradiation and surgery with and without cetuximab.
#'
#'
#'
#' @format A data frame with 297 patients and 6 variables:
#'
#' \describe{
#'   \item{arm}{Treatment Arm.}
#'   \item{OS.time}{Overall survival time in years.}
#'   \item{OS.event}{Overall survival status (0 = censored, 1 = event).}
#'   \item{hist}{Histological type of the tumor.}
#'   \item{PFS.time}{Progression-free survival time in years.}
#'   \item{PFS.event}{Progression-free survival status (0 = censored, 1 = event).}
#' }
#'
#' @source SAKK Competence Center, Switzerland
#'
#' @references
#' Ruhstaller, T., Thuss-Patience, P., Hayoz, S., Schacher, S., Knorrenschild, J. R., Schnider, A., ... & Stahl, M. (2018). Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation and surgery with and without cetuximab in patients with resectable esophageal cancer: a randomized, open-label, phase III trial (SAKK 75/08). Annals of oncology, 29(6), 1386-1393.


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