Survival analysis of brain cancer in Erbil KurdistanIraq

Abstract EN

The statistical methods for survival analysis of data have found applications in wide range of fields especially in medical researches during the past few decades.

The majority of medical researches focus on the event of time to death.

However, another crucial factor in cancer is the amount of time that passes between a treatment response and a recurrence or period of disease-free time.

This research is aimed to study the most important factors affecting the brain cancer in Erbil city using the log rank test to detect a difference in a risk of an event between factors group.

Using cox proportional model for modeling and identifying the most affecting factors of brain cancer in our data.

The data used in this research was obtained from Nanakali Hospital for Cancer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Erbil.

The results for our data showed that Morphology, Behavior and age are the most important factors affecting the brain cancer.