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This anonymized data contains survival data from patients with resectable esophageal carcinoma to compare the outcomes of two treatment regimens: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation and surgery with and without cetuximab.

Usage

esophagus

Format

A data frame with 297 patients and 6 variables:

arm

Treatment Arm.

OS.time

Overall survival time in years.

OS.event

Overall survival status (0 = censored, 1 = event).

hist

Histological type of the tumor.

PFS.time

Progression-free survival time in years.

PFS.event

Progression-free survival status (0 = censored, 1 = event).

Source

SAKK Competence Center, Switzerland

References

Ruhstaller, T., Thuss-Patience, P., Hayoz, S., Schacher, S., Knorrenschild, J. R., Schnider, A., ... & Stahl, M. (2018). Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation and surgery with and without cetuximab in patients with resectable esophageal cancer: a randomized, open-label, phase III trial (SAKK 75/08). Annals of oncology, 29(6), 1386-1393.