Response to chemotherapy data set

Description

This dataset contains Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) measurements from 50 patients of breast cancer who underwent chemotherapy (SUV variable). Response to chemotherapy was evaluated using the pathology results in the surgical specimen which was taken as gold standard by assigning one of the following three states: stable disease, partial remission and complete remission (resp variable). A column indicating the identifier of the patient is also included (id variable).

Usage

data("chemo")

References

Duch J, Fuster D, Munoz M, Fernandez P, Paredes P, Fontanillas M, Guzman F, Rubi S, Lomena F, Pons F. (2009). 18 F-FDG PET/CT for Early Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer. European Journal of Nuclear Molecular Imaging, 36, 1551-1557.

Skaltsa K, Jover L, Fuster D, Carrasco JL. (2012). Optimum threshold estimation based on cost function in a multistate diagnostic setting. Statistics in Medicine, 31:1098-1109.

Results