Bhumika Bhatt

Gender-based analysis of Breast Cancer - Part II

Posted on Thu 09 July 2020 in Data Science • Tagged with Breast Cancer, SEER, Survival Analysis, Cox Proportional-Hazards Model, Data Analysis

In the previous blog post, I ventured into gender based differences in breast cancer. In this post, I attempt to find out key predictors of breast cancer survival in the dataset obtained after propensity score matching in the previous blog post as this will help us understand better, the results …

Gender-based analysis of Breast Cancer - Part I

Posted on Thu 14 May 2020 in Data Science • Tagged with Breast Cancer, Survival Analysis, Kaplan Meier Curve, Propensity Score Matching, Data Analysis

Breast cancer is one of the two most common cancers reported worldwide in 2018 among both the genders. Along with lung cancer, breast cancer accounted for 24.6% of all the cancers ¹. As the name suggests, breast cancer is cancerous growth of cells in the breast. As both women …