gbsg

The <code>gbsg</code> data set contains patient records from a 1984-1989 trial 
conducted by the German Breast Cancer Study Group (GBSG) of 720 patients
with node positive breast cancer; it retains the 686 patients with 
complete data for the prognostic variables.

datasets

survival

Contains the core survival analysis routines, including
definition of Surv objects,
Kaplan-Meier and Aalen-Johansen (multi-state) curves, Cox models,
and parametric accelerated failure time models.

Terry Therneau

Survival Analysis

Thomas Lumley

Atkinson Elizabeth

Crowson Cynthia

gbsg function

A data set with 686 observations and 11 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>pid</code></dt>
<dd>patient identifier</dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age, years</dd> <dt><code>meno</code></dt>
<dd>menopausal status (0= premenopausal, 1= postmenopausal)</dd> <dt><code>size</code></dt>
<dd>tumor size, mm</dd> <dt><code>grade</code></dt>
<dd>tumor grade</dd> <dt><code>nodes</code></dt>
<dd>number of positive lymph nodes</dd> <dt><code>pgr</code></dt>
<dd>progesterone receptors (fmol/l)</dd> <dt><code>er</code></dt>
<dd>estrogen receptors (fmol/l)</dd> <dt><code>hormon</code></dt>
<dd>hormonal therapy, 0= no, 1= yes</dd> <dt><code>rfstime</code></dt>
<dd>recurrence free survival time; days to first of reccurence, death or last follow-up</dd> <dt><code>status</code></dt>
<dd>0= alive without recurrence, 1= recurrence or
death</dd>
</dl>

Format

Breast cancer data sets used in Royston and Altman (2013) — gbsg

A data set with 686 observations and 11 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>pid</code></dt>
<dd>patient identifier</dd>

 <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age, years</dd>

 <dt><code>meno</code></dt>
<dd>menopausal status (0= premenopausal, 1= postmenopausal)</dd>

 <dt><code>size</code></dt>
<dd>tumor size, mm</dd>

 <dt><code>grade</code></dt>
<dd>tumor grade</dd>

 <dt><code>nodes</code></dt>
<dd>number of positive lymph nodes</dd>

 <dt><code>pgr</code></dt>
<dd>progesterone receptors (fmol/l)</dd>

 <dt><code>er</code></dt>
<dd>estrogen receptors (fmol/l)</dd>

 <dt><code>hormon</code></dt>
<dd>hormonal therapy, 0= no, 1= yes</dd>

 <dt><code>rfstime</code></dt>
<dd>recurrence free survival time; days to first of reccurence, death or last follow-up</dd>

 <dt><code>status</code></dt>
<dd>0= alive without recurrence, 1= recurrence or
death</dd>


</dl>

gbsg: Breast cancer data sets used in Royston and Altman (2013)

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