thoro: Thorotrast Study
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Thorotrast Study

Description

The thoro data frame has 2470 rows and 14 columns. Each row represents one patient that have had cerebral angiography (X-ray of the brain) with an injected contrast medium, either Thorotrast or another one (the controls).

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

id: Identification of person.
sex: Sex, 1: male / 2: female.
birthdat: Date of birth, Date variable.
contrast: Group, 1: Thorotrast / 2: Control.
injecdat: Date of contrast injection, Date variable.
volume: Injected volume of Thorotrast in ml. Control patients have a 0 in this variable.
exitdat: Date of exit from the study, Date variable.
exitstat: Status at exit, 1: dead / 2: alive, censored at closing of study, 20 February 1992 / 3: censored alive at some earlier date.
cause: Cause of death. See causes in the helpfile for gmortDK.
liverdat: Date of liver cancer diagnosis, Date variable.
liver: Indicator of liver cancer diagnosis. Not all livercancers are histologically verified, hence liver >= hepcc + chola + hmang
hepcc: Hepatocellular carcinoma at liverdat.
chola: Cholangiocellular carcinoma at liverdat.
hmang: Haemangisarcoma carcinoma at liverdat.

Source

M Andersson, M Vyberg, J Visfeldt, B Carstensen & HH Storm: Primary liver tumours among Danish patients exposed to Thorotrast. Radiation Research, 137, pp. 262–273, 1994.

M Andersson, B Carstensen HH Storm: Mortality and cancer incidence after cerebral angiography. Radiation Research, 142, pp. 305–320, 1995.