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Assessing Survival Time of Women with Cervical Cancer Using Various Parametric Frailty Models: A Case Study at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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  • Selamawit Endale Gurmu

    (Assosa University)

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Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world and represents a tremendous burden on patients, families and societies. It is estimated that over one million women worldwide currently have cervical cancer; most of them have not been diagnosed or have no access to treatment that could cure them or prolong their lives. The goal of this study is to investigate potential risk factors affecting survival time of women with cervical cancer at Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital. Data were taken from patients’ medical record card that enrolled during September 2011–September 2015. Kaplan–Meier estimation method, Cox proportional hazard model and parametric shared frailty model were used to analysis survival time of cervical cancer patients. Study subjects (cervical cancer patients) in this study came from clustered community and hence clustered survival data correlated at the regional level. Parametric frailty models will be explored assuming that women with in the same cluster (region for this study) shares similar risk factors. We used Exponential, Weibull, Log logistics and Log normal distributions and based on AIC criteria, all models were compared for their performance. The lognormal inverse Gaussian model has the minimum AIC value among the models compared. The results implied that not giving birth up to the study ends and married after twenty years were significantly prolong the survival time of patients while age class 51–60, 61–70, > 70, smoking cigarettes, patients with stage III and IV disease, family history of cervical cancer, history of abortion and living with HIV AIDS were significantly shorten survival time of patients. The findings of this study suggested that age, smoking cigarettes, stage, family history, abortion history, living with HIV AIDS, age at first marriage and age at first birth were major factors to survival time of patients. Heterogeneity between the regions in the survival time of cervical cancer patients, indicating that one needs to account for this clustering variable using frailty models. The fit statistics showed that lognormal inverse-Gaussian frailty model described the survival time of cervical cancer patients dataset better than other distributions used in this study.

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  • Selamawit Endale Gurmu, 2018. "Assessing Survival Time of Women with Cervical Cancer Using Various Parametric Frailty Models: A Case Study at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia," Annals of Data Science, Springer, vol. 5(4), pages 513-527, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aodasc:v:5:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s40745-018-0150-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s40745-018-0150-7
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