A dataset containing cancer survival rates for different types of cancer over a 20 year period.

newcancer

Format

A data frame with 96 rows and 3 variables:

Year

ordered factor for the 5, 10, 15 and 20 year survival rates

Type

factor containing the name of the cancer type

Survival

numeric for this data a whole number corresponding to the percent survival rate

Source

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003nk