Breast Cancer Patient Characteristics and Mortality by BMI Group, 18,778 Patients

Ingunn Fride Tvete's dataset provides patient characteristics for 18,778 breast cancer patients with registered height and weight (BMI). The data includes percentages for all patients, survivors, and those who died due to breast cancer or other causes. It was last updated on 2026-05-27.

Use Cases

• Analyze survival rates based on BMI groups mentioned in the description.
• Compare patient characteristics between survivors and non-survivors.
• Investigate mortality causes (breast cancer vs. other) across different BMI categories.

Strengths

• Includes data for 18,778 patients with registered BMI.
• Distinguishes between mortality due to breast cancer and other causes.
• Released under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Ingunn Fride Tvete via figshare.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:29:27; freshness should be verified.