Time-range based sequential mining for survival prediction in prostate cancer.
Journal:
Journal of biomedical informatics
Published Date:
Sep 1, 2020
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Metastatic prostate cancer has a higher mortality rate than localized cancers. There is a need to investigate the survival outcome of metastatic prostate cancers separately. Also, the treatments undertaken by the patients affect their overall survival. The present study tries to analyze the sequence of treatments given to the patients, along with the time intervals between each set of treatments. The time when medication needs to be changed may provide some useful insights into the survival outcome of the patients.