pancreatic {asaur}

pancreatic

Description

Data from a Phase II clinical trial of patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Usage

data("pancreatic")

Format

A data frame with 41 observations on the following 4 variables.

stage

a factor with levels LA (locally advanced) or M (metastatic)

onstudy

date of enrollment into the clinical trial, in month/day/year format

progression

date of progression, in month/day/year format

death

date of death, in month/day/year format

Details

Since all patients in this study have known death dates, there is no censoring.

References

Moss RA, Moore D, Mulcahy MF, Nahum K, Saraiya B, Eddy S, Kleber M, and Poplin EA (2012) A multi-institutional phase 2 study of imatinib mesylate and gemcitabine for first-line treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer. Gastrointestinal Cancer Research 5, 77 - 83.

Examples

data(pancreatic)