2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.08.038
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Breast cancer patients in Nigeria: Data exploration approach

Abstract: Breast cancer is the type of cancer that develops from breast tissue; it is mostly common in women and it is one of the most studied diseases, largely because of its high mortality (second to lung cancer). However, it occurs in males also. This article presents a statistical study of the distribution of age, gender, length of stay, mode of diagnosis, status (dead or alive) after treatment and the location of breast cancer among 300 patients admitted in the University of Ilorin teaching hospital, Ilorin, Nigeri… Show more

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“…Other descriptive methods as contained in Refs. [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] can also be used to explain the patterns and trend of the data set collected. The result for the correlation analysis is made available in Table 2 .…”
Section: Experimental Design Materials and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other descriptive methods as contained in Refs. [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] can also be used to explain the patterns and trend of the data set collected. The result for the correlation analysis is made available in Table 2 .…”
Section: Experimental Design Materials and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several studies have been conducted on the issues affecting normal delivery, still birth incidences and epidemiology of Caesarean section child delivery among women in Nigeria [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] . Similar data articles on medicine that applied statistical tools could be helpful, readers are refer to [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… Other methods which are available in Refs. [7] , [8] , [9] can be used to analyze the dataset to get other results. …”
Section: Experimental Design Materials and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%