258 patient records from a retrospective study at a pediatric oncology center in São Paulo, Brazil, covering the period from 1991 to 2012. The data includes clinical and epidemiological characteristics such as patient age, symptoms, tumor location, metastasis sites, and five-year survival outcomes. The study was authored by Januária Nunes Lucena and is available via Open Access.
Use Cases
- Modeling survival outcomes based on clinical characteristics like age at diagnosis and tumor location.
- Analyzing the relationship between symptom presentation, such as fever or abdominal pain, and time to diagnosis.
- Studying patterns of metastasis, particularly to bone marrow and bone, in a pediatric patient cohort.
Strengths
- Contains data for 258 patients, providing a substantive cohort for analysis.
- Covers a 21-year time range (1991-2012), allowing for longitudinal observation.
- Includes specific survival metrics, with reported 5-year overall survival of 62% and event-free survival of 52%.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Instituto de Oncologia Pediátrica in São Paulo, Brazil
- Collection Method
- Retrospective study using medical records
- Time Range
- 1991 to 2012
- Geography
- São Paulo, Brazil