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StepReg (version 1.6.0)

lung: NCCTG Lung Cancer Data

Description

Survival in patients with advanced lung cancer from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Performance scores rate how well the patient can perform usual daily activities.

Usage

data(lung)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 228 observations on 10 variables.

inst

Institution code

time

Survival time in days

status

censoring status 1=censored, 2=dead

age

Age in years

sex

Male=1 Female=2

ph.ecog

ECOG performance score as rated by the physician. 0=asymptomatic, 1= symptomatic but completely ambulatory, 2= in bed < 50% of the day, 3= in bed > 50% of the day but not bedbound, 4 = bedbound

ph.karno

Karnofsky performance score (bad=0-good=100) rated by physician

pat.karno

Karnofsky performance score as rated by patient

meal.cal

Calories consumed at meals

wt.loss

Weight loss in last six months (pounds)

References

  • Loprinzi CL. Laurie JA. Wieand HS. Krook JE. Novotny PJ. Kugler JW. Bartel J. Law M. Bateman M. Klatt NE. et al. Prospective evaluation of prognostic variables from patient-completed questionnaires. North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 12(3):601-7, 1994.

See Also

lung for the original dataset in the survival package

Examples

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data(lung)
summary(lung)

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