ex0431: Effect of Group Therapy on Survival of Breast Cancer Patients
Description
Researchers randomly assigned metastatic breast cancer patients to
either a control group or a group that received weekly 90 minute
sessions of group therapy and self-hypnosis, to see whether the latter
treatment improved the patients' quality of life.
Usage
ex0431
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 58 observations on the following 3 variables.
Survival
months of survival after beginning of study
Group
a factor with levels "Control" and
"Therapy"
Censor
0 if entire lifetime observed, 1 if patient
known to have lived at least 122 months
References
Spiegel, D., Bloom, J.R., Kraemer, H.C. and Gottheil, E.
(1989). Effect of Psychosocial Treatment on Survival of Patients with
Metastatic Breast Cancer, Lancet334(8668): 888--891.