Patients with Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma

This is a synthetically generated dataset containing metadata for healthy individuals and patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer or adenomas. The primary purpose of this dataset in the context of matching is to balance the status groups across various covariates and achieve optimal matching quality.

Usage

data(cancer)

Format

A data frame (cancer) with 1,224 rows and 5 columns:

status

Patient's health status, which can be one of the following: healthy, adenoma, crc_benign (benign colorectal carcinoma), or crc_malignant (malignant colorectal carcinoma).

sex

Patient's biological sex, recorded as either M (male) or F (female).

age

Patient's age, represented as a continuous numeric variable.

bmi

Patient's Body Mass Index (BMI), represented as a continuous numeric variable.

smoker

Smoking status of the patient, recorded as yes or no.

Source

Data generated artificially