FACTOR-ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL DATA OF PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY AND METASTATIC VAGINAL-CANCER

This study adds up to the series of studies on application of factoria l designs to analysis of cancer patients medical data. Namely besides the information regarding his/her disease, each hospitalized cancer pa tient also provides the variety of data regarding his/her psychologica l, cultural, social, economical, genetic, constitutional and medical b ackground. The aim of this particular study was to analyze clinical da ta in patients with primary and metastatic vaginal cancer and to compa re them with the results of factor analytic approach in some other gyn ecological cancers. namely vulvar and cervical cancer. In this particu lar study the authors have processed the data regarding 25 characteris tics of 200 consecutive patients with primary vaginal cancer and 300 c onsecutive patients with metastatic vaginal cancer treated between 198 0 and 1994 at the Department for Gynecological Oncology of the Univers ity Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Zagreb, Croatia. The resul ts revealed numerous repeating clusters of variable correlations acros s all four factor analyses in patients with cervical, vulvar, primary and metastatic vaginal cancers.