Melanoma: Malignant melanoma data
Description
In the period 1962-77, 205 patients with malignant melanoma
(cancer of the skin) had a radical operation performed at
Odense University Hospital, Denmark. All patients were
followed until the end of 1977 by which time 134 were still
alive while 71 had died (of out whom 57 had died from
cancer and 14 from other causes).source
http://192.38.117.59/~linearpredictors/?page=datasets&dataset=MelanomaDetails
The object of the study was to assess the effect of risk
factors on survival. Among such risk factors were the sex
and age of the patients and the histological variables
tumor thickness and ulceration (absent vs. present).References
Regression with linear predictors (2010)Andersen, P.K. and Skovgaard, L.T.
Springer Verlag