mastectomy {HSAUR} | R Documentation

## Survival Times after Mastectomy of Breast Cancer Patients

### Description

Survival times in months after mastectomy of women with breast cancer. The cancers are classified as having metastized or not based on a histochemical marker.

### Usage

    data("mastectomy")

### Format

A data frame with 42 observations on the following 3 variables.

time
  survival times in months.
event
  a logical indicating if the event was observed (`TRUE`) or if the survival time was censored (`FALSE`).
metastized
  a factor at levels `yes` and `no`.

### Source

B. S. Everitt and S. Rabe-Hesketh (2001), Analysing Medical Data using S-PLUS, Springer, New York, USA.

### Examples

      data("mastectomy", package = "HSAUR")
      table(mastectomy$metastized)

[Package HSAUR version 1.2-3 Index]