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Comparison of two treatments for prostatic cancer
Description
Randomised controlled trial from the Veteran's Administration Cooperative Urological Research Group. Includes patients who had stage III cancers and were randomised to placebo or daily oral treatment with 1.0 mg of diethylstilbesterol (DES).
Usage
prostatic
Format
A data frame with 38 rows and 8 variables:
patient
integer patient identifier
treatment
integer treatment indicator (1=placebo; 2=daily treatment with 1.0 mg of diethylstilbesterol (DES))
time
integ er survival time from trial entry to end of follow-up in months
status
integer for follow-up status (0=alive or died from other causes, 1=died from prostate cancer
age
integer age at trial entry in years
shb
double serum hemoglobin at trial entry in g/dL
size
integer size of the primary tumour in cm^3
index
integer Gleason index based on histopathology
Details
TBC.
References
Andrews DF, Herzberg AM. Data: a collection of problems from many fields for the student and research worker. Springer Series in Statistics; Springer New York, NY; 1985. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-5098-2