On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the CancerSurvival data set which pertains to CancerSurvival. The CancerSurvival data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the CancerSurvival data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("CancerSurvival"). This will load the data into a variable called CancerSurvival. If R says the CancerSurvival data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the CancerSurvival R data set. The size of this file is about 870 bytes.

CancerSurvival

Description

Cancer survival with ascorbate supplement

Format

A dataset with 64 observations on the following 2 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Survival	Survival time (in days)
Organ	Breast, Bronchus, Colon, Ovary, or Stomach

Details

In the 1970's doctors wondered if giving terminal cancer patients a supplement of ascorbate would prolong their lives. They designed an experiment to compare cancer patients who received ascorbate to cancer patients who did not receive the supplement. The result of that experiment was that, in fact, ascorbate did seem to prolong the lives of these patients. But then a second question arose. Was the effect of the ascorbate different when different organs were affected by the cancer? The researchers took a second look at the data. This time they concentrated only on those patients who received the ascorbate and divided the data up by which organ was affected by the cancer. They had 5 different organs represented among the patients (all of whom only had one organ affected): Stomach, bronchus, colon, ovary, and breast.

Source

From the article "Supplemental Ascorbate in the Supportive Treatment of Cancer: Reevaluation of Prolongation of Survival Times in Terminal Human Cancer" by Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 75, No. 9 (Sep., 1978), pp. 4538-4542.

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.