format_breast_cancer: Format overall breast cancer mortality data

In mightyphil2000/UkbCancerMortality: Format cancer data from UK Biobank for survival analyses

Format overall breast cancer mortality data

Description

Format the overall breast cancer mortality dataset so that it can be used in survival analyses. The function estimates the number of deaths due to breast cancer and other causes, date of diagnosis, date of death, difference between latest and earlies dates of diagnosis for individuals with more than one diagnosis date, length of followup and survival time.

Usage

format_breast_cancer(dat = NULL, censor_date = "2018-02-06")

Arguments

dat

the cancer dataset containing only individuals with a diagnosis of any cancer

censor_date

the date up until which the death registry data in UK Biobank is assumed to be complete. We assume that everyone not in the death registry at this date was still alive on this date. The default assumes a censoring date of "2018-02-06", based on the maximum value for the date of diagnosis f.40005.0.0 field in dataset 37205 on the rdsf /projects/MRC-IEU/research/data/ukbiobank/phenotypic/applications/15825/released/2019-05-02/data/derived/formats/r

Value

data frame

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