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survMisc (version 0.2)

gastric: gastric cancer trial data

Description

gastric cancer trial data

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source

Klein J, Moeschberger 2003 Survival Analysis, 2nd edition. New York: Springer. Example 7.9, pg 224.

Details

Data from a trial of locally unresectable gastic cancer. Patients (45 in each group) were randomized to one of two groups: chemotheapy vs chemotherapy + radiotherapy.

References

Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group 1982 A comparison of combination chemotherapy and combined modality therapy for locally advanced gastric carcinoma. Cancer;49(9):1771--7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6176313{Pubmed}. Stablein DM, Koutrouvelis IA 1985 A two-sample test sensitive to crossing hazards in uncensored and singly censored data. Biometrics;41(3):643--52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2531284{JSTOR}.