prostateSurvival

Description

This data set contains survival times for two competing causes: time from prostate cancer diagnosis to death from prostate cancer, and time from prostate cancer diagnosis to death from other causes. The data set also contains information on several risk factors. The data in this data set are simulated from detailed competing risk survival curves and counts of numbers of patients per group presented in Lu-Yao et al. (2009). Thus, the simulated data presented here contain many of the characteristics of the original SEER-Medicare prostate cancer data used in Lu-Yao et al. (2009).

Usage

data("prostateSurvival")

Format

A data frame with 14294 observations on the following 5 variables.

grade

a factor with levels mode (moderately differentiated) and poor (poorly differentiated)

stage

a factor with levels T1ab (Stage T1, clinically diagnoseed), T1c (Stage T1, diagnosed via a PSA test), and T2 (Stage T2)

ageGroup

a factor with levels 66-69 70-74 75-79 80+

survTime

time from diagnosis to death or last date known alive

status

a censoring variable, 0, (censored), 1 (death from prostate cancer), and 2 (death from other causes)

Source

Lu-Yao, GL, Albertsen PC, Moore DF, Shih W, Lin Y, DiPaola RS, Barry MJ, Zietman A, O'Leary M, Walker-Corkery E, Yao S-L (2009) Outcomes of localized prostate cancer following conservative management. Journal of the American Medical Association 302, 1202 - 1209.)

Examples

data(prostateSurvival)