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Monoclonal gammopathy data

Natural history of 241 subjects with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS).

mgus: A data frame with 46 observations on the following 13 variables.

id:	subject id
age:	age in years at the detection of MGUS
sex:	male or female
dxyr:	year of diagnosis
pcdx:	for subjects who progress to a plasma cell malignancy
	the subtype of malignancy: multiple myeloma (MM) is the
	most common, followed by amyloidosis (AM), macroglobulinemia (MA),
	and other lymphprolifative disorders (LP)
pctime:	days from MGUS until diagnosis of a plasma cell malignancy
futime:	days from diagnosis to last follow-up
death:	1= follow-up is until death
alb:	albumin level at MGUS diagnosis
creat:	creatinine at MGUS diagnosis
hgb:	hemoglobin at MGUS diagnosis
mspike:	size of the monoclonal protein spike at diagnosis

mgus1: The same data set in start,stop format. Contains the id, age, sex, and laboratory variable described above along with

start, stop:	sequential intervals of time for each subject
status:	=1 if the interval ends in an event
event:	a factor containing the event type: censor, death, or plasma cell malignancy
enum:	event number for each subject: 1 or 2

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Source

Mayo Clinic data courtesy of Dr. Robert Kyle.

References

R Kyle, Benign monoclonal gammopathy – after 20 to 35 years of follow-up, Mayo Clinic Proc 1993; 68:26-36.

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Monoclonal_gammopathy_data_534_31.csv")