rectum: Beijing post-operative rectal cancer patients dataset
In kbolab/distrcox: Package for simulating Cox proportional hazards distributions

A dataset containing the Beijing University data about post-operative radiotherapy in rectal cancer patients. The recorded features are:

Age. Age of patient
Sex. Male, Female
ECOG. Pre-treatment performance status
Histology. Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous
Grade. Histological differentiation grade
RTCT. If treated by chemoradiotherapy (1) or radiotherapy alone (0)
pT. Pathological T stage
pN. Pathological N stage
pM. Pathological M stage
AdjCT. If patient underwent (1) or not (0) to adjuvant chemotherapy
CTcicles. Number of cicles of adjuvant chemotherapy
RTbreak. Duration (in days) of breaks during radiotherapy treatment
RTtox. Maximum grade of RTOG toxicity shown during (chemo)radiotherapy treatment
Residual. Presence (1) or absence (0) of residual tumor after surgery
IMRT. If radiotherapy treatment was delivered by IMRT (1) or not (0)
status. Censored cases (0) or dead (1)
OS. Overall survival time (in months)