mgus2: Monoclonal gammapothy data
Description
Natural history of 1341 sequential patients with monoclonal
gammapothy of undetermined significance (MGUS).Format
A data frame with 1384 observations on the following 10 variables.
id
- subject identifier
age
- age at diagnosis, in years
sex
- a factor with levels
F
M
hgb
- hemoglobin
creat
- creatinine
mspike
- size of the monoclonal serum splike
ptime
- time until progression to a plasma cell
malignancy (PCM) or last contact, in months
pstat
- occurrence of PCM: 0=no, 1=yes
futime
- time until death or last contact, in months
death
- occurrence of death: 0=no, 1=yes
Details
This is a larger follow-on study of the condition also found in data
set mgus
.References
R. Kyle, T. Therneau, V. Rajkumar, J. Offord, D. Larson, M. Plevak,
and L. J. Melton III, A long-terms study of prognosis in monoclonal
gammopathy of undertermined significance. New Engl J Med, 346:564-569 (2002).