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I have tumour data for a group of individuals. I want to do a survival analysis, using "number of lymphocytes per tumour" as the feature, ie. it will be split by median into two groups, low and high (please note this is not my actual feature, but just an example).
Eg.
PATIENTID TUMOR_SITE VALUE TIME STATUS
Patient 1 Kidney 23 172 1
Patient 2 Brain 18 280 0
Patient 3 Liver 32 185 1
So I would then do a survival analysis on this data, with the grouping of VALUE either "high" or "low".
My question is - how do I do the survival analysis if there are multiple tumours per patient? eg:
PATIENTID TUMOR_SITE VALUE TIME STATUS
Patient 1 Kidney 23 172 1
Patient 1 Lymph 13 280 0
Patient 1 Skin 11 280 0
Patient 2 Brain 18 280 0
Patient 3 Kidney 34 185 1
Patient 3 Liver 32 185 1
You should remove those patients from your analysis. Suppose your research question is how would be the association of tumor site with survival probability? (right?) For those patients you have more than one tumor , survival probability is associated with both tumors. Actually there is no way to measure each tumor association with survival probabilty seperately. I