Open AccessEstimation of Relative Hazard between Groups of Cancer patients in North West Nigeria
Author(s) -
Boyi Abubakar Dalatu,
Shehu Ladan,
Nwoji O. Jude,
Shamsuddeen A. Sabo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2395-602X
pISSN - 2395-6011
DOI - 10.32628/ijsrst207513
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , estimation , proportional hazards model , cancer registry , hazard , medicine , relative survival , statistics , cancer , population , demography , environmental health , mathematics , surgery , confidence interval , engineering , biology , ecology , systems engineering , sociology
A problem in population-based cancer survival analysis is the estimation of relative hazard between patients with different characteristics handled in the same registry center. In this work, we use the Cox proportional hazard model to find an estimated hazard ratio between two patients having different characteristics. The procedure was then fitted has been applied on the data collected from Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) Zaria Cancer Registry Center. The result indicated that female and frail patients are more prone to failure than male and non frail patients respectively.