This extracts the number of biopsies taken from the pathology report. This is usually from the Macroscopic description column. It collects everything from the regex [0-9]1,2.0,3 to whatever the string boundary is (z).
HistolNumbOfBx(dataframe, MacroColumn, regString)
dataframe | the dataframe |
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MacroColumn | Column containing the Macroscopic description text |
regString | The keyword to remove and to stop at in the regex |
qq<-HistolNumbOfBx(Mypath,'Macroscopicdescription','specimen')