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sibr: sibr - a simulated cohort of Finnish female breast cancer patients

Description

sibr is a simulated cohort pertaining female Finnish breast cancer patients diagnosed between 1993-2012. Instead of actual original dates, the dates are masked via modest randomization within several time windows. The dataset is additionally a random sample of 10 000 cases from the pertaining time window.

format

data.table with columns

• sex - gender of the patient (1 = female)
• bi_date - date of birth
• dg_date - date of cancer diagnosis
• ex_date - date of exit from follow-up (death or censoring)
• status - status of the person at exit; 0 alive; 1 dead due to pertinent cancer; 2 dead due to other causes
• dg_age - age at diagnosis expressed as fractional years

source

The Finnish Cancer Registry

Details

The closing date for the pertinent data was 2012-12-31, meaning status information was available only up to that point --- hence the maximum possible ex_date is 2012-12-31.