Essays about: "subdistribution hazard"

Found 1 essay containing the words subdistribution hazard.

  1. 1. Surviving Breast Cancer: A study of cancer recurrence and mortality after mastectomy in postmenopausal women receiving radiotherapy and Tamoxifen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Oxana Tarassiouk; Rebecca Rylance; [2010]
    Keywords : Breast cancer; competing risks; Cox PH; radiotherapy; subdistribution hazard; Tamoxifen; survival analysis; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes mortality, cancer recurrence (loco-regional, other types of cancer and distant) and the impact of progesterone status on the effect of Tamoxifen using survival analysis methods. The data consists of 258 postmenopausal women from the Southern Sweden health care region with estrogen positive receptor status receiving radiotherapy, Tamoxifen and a combination of those after mastectomy. READ MORE