Research Article

Risk Factors Discovery for Cancer Survivability Analysis Using Graph-Rule Mining

Table 10

Selected item sets and their descriptions (ordered alphabetically) from our study.

ItemDescription

AGE_DX(1)Age at diagnosis less than 53
AGE_DX(2)Age at diagnosis more than or equal to 53 and less than 67
AGE_DX(3)Age at diagnosis more than or equal to 67
ADJACCSTG(70.0)Breast adjusted AJCC 6th stage (1988+)–IV
C50(4,8,9)Breast
HISTREC(9)Histology recode—broad groupings (8500–8549)
LATERAL(1)Not a paired site
LATERAL(2)Right: origin of primary
MAR_STAT(1)Single (never married)
MAR_STAT(2)Married (including common law)
MAR_STAT(5)Widowed
NUMPRIMS(1)One primary
NUMPRIMS(2)Two primaries
ORIGIN(0)Non-Spanish/Non-Hispanic
RADIATN(0)None or diagnosed at autopsy
RADIATN(1)Beam radiation
SEQ_NUM(0)One primary only in the patient’s lifetime
SEQ_NUM(1)First of two or more primaries
SEX(2)Female
Survival months less than 60 months or equal
Survival months more than 60 months