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Factors associated with prostate specific antigen
Description
Data from a study by by Stamey et al. (1989) to examine the association between prostate specific antigen (PSA) and several clinical measures that are potentially associated with PSA in men who were about to receive a radical prostatectomy. The variables are as follows:
lcavol: Log cancer volume
lweight: Log prostate weight
age: The man's age
lbph: Log of the amount of benign hyperplasia
svi: Seminal vesicle invasion; 1=Yes, 0=No
lcp: Log of capsular penetration
gleason: Gleason score
pgg45: Percent of Gleason scores 4 or 5
lpsa: Log PSA
Usage
data(prostate)Format
A data frame with 97 observations on 9 variables
References
Stamey, T., Kabalin, J., McNeal, J., Johnstone, I., Freiha, F., Redwine, E. and Yang, N. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate II. Radical prostatectomy treated patients, Journal of Urology 16: 1076-1083.