This meta-analysis was carried out by the GASTRIC (Global Advanced/Adjuvant Stomach Tumor Research international Collaboration) group, using individual data on patients with curatively resected gastric cancer. Data from all published randomized trials, with a patient recruitment end date before 2004, and comparing adjuvant chemotherapy with surgery alone for resectable gastric cancers, were searched electronically. The candidate surrogate endpoint S was Desease-free survival time, defined as the time (in days) to relapse, second cancer or dead from any cause. The true endpoint T was the overall survival time, defined as the time (in days) from randomization to death of any cause or to the last follow-up.
data(gastadj)
This data frame contains the following columns:
The trial in which the patient was treated
The identification number of a patient
The treatment indicator, coded as 0 = Control and 1 = Experimental
The candidate surrogate (progression-free survival in days)
Censoring indicator for for Progression-free survival (0 = alive and progression-free, 1 = with progression or dead)
The true endpoint (overall survival time in days)
Censoring indicator for survival time (0 = alive, 1 = dead)