BMT: Bone Marrow Transplant
In survminer: Drawing Survival Curves using 'ggplot2'

Description Usage Format References Examples

Bone marrow transplant data from L Scrucca et aL., Bone Marrow Transplantation (2007). Data from 35 patients with acute leukaemia who underwent HSCT. Used for competing risk analysis.

1	data("BMT")

A data frame with 35 rows and 3 columns.

1
2
3

- dis: disease; 0 = ALL; 1 = AML
- ftime: follow-up time
- status: 0 = censored (survival); 1 = Transplant-related mortality; 2 = relapse

Scrucca L, Santucci A, Aversa F. Competing risk analysis using R: an easy guide for clinicians. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007 Aug;40(4):381-7.

data(BMT)
if(require("cmprsk")){

# Data preparaion
#+++++++++++++++++++++
# Label diseases
BMT$dis <- factor(BMT$dis, levels = c(0,1),
   labels = c("ALL", "AML"))
# Label status
BMT$status <- factor(BMT$status, levels = c(0,1,2),
  labels = c("Censored","Mortality","Relapse"))

# Cumulative Incidence Function
# ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fit <- cmprsk::cuminc(
  ftime = BMT$ftime,      # Failure time variable
  fstatus = BMT$status,   # Codes for different causes of failure
  group = BMT$dis         # Estimates will calculated within groups
 )

# Visualize
# +++++++++++++++++++++++
ggcompetingrisks(fit)
ggcompetingrisks(fit, multiple_panels = FALSE,
  legend = "right")

}