What are prediction models for prostate cancer?
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What are prediction models for prostate cancer?
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@vindhuja Models have been developed that combine the clinical stage (as determined by DRE findings), Gleason score, and PSA level in an attempt to better predict which men have organ-confined cancer, as opposed to those who may have local extension. In addition, these models can be used to predict the time to biochemical failure and the time to the development of clinical metastatic disease in patients with rising PSA levels.
These models have been adapted to personal-computer and handheld-computer platforms and can be used with ease in clinical practice. One such program can be downloaded free of charge from the Prostate Nomogram section of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Web site. The Partin tables, updated by experts at Johns Hopkins in 2013, are another excellent nomogram for predicting prostate cancer spread and prognosis. Updates to the tool were based on a study of 5629 men who underwent radical prostatectomy and staging lymphadenectomy between 2006 and 2011. The updated tables show that certain categories of men who were previously not thought to have a good prognosis (eg, those with a Gleason score of
actually can be cured with surgery.