follic {SemiPar.depCens}

Follicular Cell Lymphoma

Description

Competing risk data set involving follicular cell lymphoma as given in the book of Pintilie (2006). The data consist of 541 patients with early disease stage (I or II) and treated with radiation alone (RT) or with radiation and chemotherapy (CMT). The endpoints of interest are what comes first: relapse of the disease or death in remission.

Format

A data frame with 541 rows and 7 variables:

• age: age

• clinstg: clinical stage: 1=stage I, 2=stage II

• ch: chemotherapy

• rt: radiotherapy

• hgb: hemoglobin level in g/l

• time: first failure time

• status: censoring status; 0=censored, 1=relapse, 2=death

References

Pintilie, M. (2006), Competing Risks: A Practical Perspective, Chichester: Wiley.