Data set from a clinical trial conducted by the Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group (GTSG) in 1982. The data set refers to the survival times of patients with locally nonresectable gastric cancer. Patients were either treated with chemotherapy combined with radiation or chemotherapy alone.
Format
A data frame with 90 rows and 3 variables:
time: survival times (in days)
status: failure indicator (1 - failure; 0 - otherwise)
trt: treatments (1 - chemotherapy + radiation; 0 - chemotherapy alone)
References
Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group. (1982) A Comparison of Combination Chemotherapy and Combined Modality Therapy for Locally Advanced Gastric Carcinoma. Cancer 49:1771-7.
Author
Fabio N. Demarqui fndemarqui@est.ufmg.br