Cox Proportional Hazard Model to Examine the Association between Tumour Size and Breast Cancer: Applying on Swedish breast Cancer Patients | ||
| The Egyptian Statistical Journal | ||
| Article 3, Volume 61, Issue 2, December 2017, Pages 69-79 PDF (3.68 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/esju.2017.270117 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The focus of this research is to study whether the tumour size is one of the vital variables that effect on the overall survival rate of breast cancer cases after stratified by the hormone receptor . a sample of six hundred and sixty-three woman cases with breast cancer aged between 23 to 83 years was examined . cox proportional hazard regression model is used . unadjusted and adjusted model ( adjusting by age, menopause status and lymph node status) are fitted. All analyses are stratifited by factors that increase the mortality rate for the breast cancer patients. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Breast cancer; tumour size; survival analysis | ||
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