Table 4 Attributes available for analysis
From: Mining causal relationships among clinical variables for cancer diagnosis based on Bayesian analysis
Attribute | Type | Explanation | Corresponding |
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Race/ethnicity | Categorical | 22 races | X 0 |
Sex | Binary | Female/male | X 1 |
Age-at-diagnosis | Numeric | Years | X 2 |
Primary-Site | Categorical | Eleven sites | X 3 |
Histologic-Type-ICD-O-3 | Categorical | International Prediction of Diseases for Oncology Third Revision | X 4 |
Grade | Categorical | Tumor grade | X 5 |
EOD-Tumor-Size | Numeric | Size of primary tumor | X 6 |
EOD-Extension | Categorical | Invasive extension of primary tumor | X 7 |
EOD-Lymph-Node-Involve | Categorical | Extension of lymph node involvement | X 8 |
Regional-Nodes-Positive | Numeric | No. of positive regional lymph nodes | X 9 |
Regional-Nodes-Examined | Numeric | No. of regional lymph nodes examined | X 10 |
Rx-Summ-Surg-Prim-Site | Categorical | Extension of surgery | X 11 |
Rx-Summ-Sur-Oth-Reg/Dis | Categorical | Surgery of other regional site(s), distant site(s), or distant lymph node(s) | X 12 |
Rx-Summ-Surg-/-Rad-Seq | Categorical | Prior to/after surgery/both | X 13 |
CS-Schema-v0203 | Categorical | CS information collected based on site and histology | X 14 |
SEER-historic-stage-A | Categorical | A stage system coded by SEER | X 15 |
SEER-Summary-Stage-1977 | Categorical | A stage system coded by SEER | X 16 |
Number-of-primaries | Numeric | Number of primaries | X 17 |
First-malignant-primary-indicator | Binary | Yes/no | X 18 |
Class | Categorical | SEER cause-specific death prediction | C |