The goal of UkbCancerMortality is to format UK Biobank cancer mortality data so that it can be used in survival analyses. The package provides functions for estimating the number of deaths due to the specific cancer of interest and other causes, date of diagnosis, date of death, difference between latest and earlies dates of diagnosis for individuals with more than one diagnosis date, length of followup and survival time.
You can install UkbCancerMortality from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mightyphil2000/UkbCancerMortality")In this example I load a dataset containing only lung cancer cases. I then format the dataset to contain: to This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:
library(UkbCancerMortality)
#load("../UKBB_cancer_mortality_incl_relateds_non_white_british.Rdata")
#lun<-bd[which(bd$overall_lung_cancer == 2),]
#lun2<-format_lung_cancer(dat=lun)