Head and Neck Squamous-Cell Carcinoma Treatment

This dataset, HeadNeckCarcinoma_df, is a data frame containing results from 65 trials examining mortality risk in patients with nonmetastatic head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma receiving either locoregional treatment plus chemotherapy versus locoregional treatment alone. The dataset provides the observed minus expected number of deaths and corresponding variances in the locoregional treatment plus chemotherapy group.

Usage

data(HeadNeckCarcinoma_df)

Format

A data frame with 65 observations and 5 variables:

id

Trial identifier (numeric).

trial

Name of the trial (character).

OmE

Observed minus expected number of deaths (numeric).

V

Variance of the observed minus expected deaths (numeric).

grp

Treatment group (integer).

Source

Data taken from the metadat package. Pignon, J. P., Bourhis, J., Domenge, C., & Designe, L. (2000). Chemotherapy added to locoregional treatment for head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma: Three meta-analyses of updated individual data. Lancet, 355(9208), 949-955. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(00)90011-4

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'HeadNeckCarcinoma_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the OncoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix '_df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.