The dataset is from the supplementary files of Maringe et al. (2020), doi:10.1093/ije/dyaa057 . The dataset is a set of 200 simulated lung cancer patients. These patients are followed up for a year following their cancer diagnosis: 106 of them received surgery within six months of their diagnosis and 48 died in the year.

lungcancer

Format

lungcancer

A data frame with 200 rows and 12 columns:

id

patient identifier

fup_obs

observed follow-up time (time to death or 1 year if censored alive)

death

observed event of interest (all-cause death) 1: dead, 0:alive

timetosurgery

time to surgery (NA if no surgery)

surgery

observed treatment 1 if the patient received surgery within 6 month, 0 otherwise

age

age at diagnosis

sex

patient's sex

perf

performance status at diagnosis

stage

stage at diagnosis

deprivation

deprivation score

charlson

Charlson's comorbidity index

emergency

route to diagnosis

Examples

data(lungcancer)