lymphoma           package:gcmrec           R Documentation(latin1)

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This contains cancer relapses times after first treatment in
     patients diagnosed with low grade lymphoma

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(lymphoma)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     _i_d identificator of each subject. Repeated for each recurrence

     _t_i_m_e interocurrence or censoring time

     _e_v_e_n_t censoring status. All event are 1 for each subject 
          excepting last one that it is 0

     _e_n_u_m which lymphoma

     _d_e_l_a_y delay between first symptom and date of first treatment as a
          continuous variable

     _a_g_e age at diagnosis

     _s_e_x gender: 1:Males 2:Females

     _d_i_s_t_r_i_b lesions involved at diagnosis (0=Single, 1=Localized,
          2=More than one nodal site, 3=Generalized

     _e_f_f_a_g_e response achieved after treatment upon relapses, coded as
          CR: Complete remission,  PR: Partial remission or SD: stable
          disease or null response.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     JR Gonzalez, E Pea, E Slate (2005). Modelling treatment effect
     after cancer relapses, with application to recurrences in indolent
     non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. _Stat Med_, submitted.

     O. Servitje, F. Gallardo, T. Estrach, et al. (2002). Primary
     cutaneous marginal zone B-cell lymphoma: a clinical,
     histopathological, immunophenotypic and molecular genetic study of
     22 cases. _Br J Dermatol_, 147:1147-1158.

