Accurate estimates of risk are essential for physicians if they are to recommend a specific
management to patients with prostate cancer. Accurate risk estimates also are required for …

Decision rules, such as nomograms, provide evidence-based and at the same time
individualized predictions of the outcome of interest. Such predictions have been repeatedly …

Purpose: Accurate estimates of risk are essential for physicians if they are to recommend a
specific management to patients with prostate cancer. Accurate risk estimates are also …

Prostate cancer is a very complex disease, and the decision-making process requires the
clinician to balance clinical benefits, life expectancy, comorbidities and potential treatment …

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the National Comprehensive Cancer Network prostate cancer
guidelines pretreatment risk groups in a contemporary series of patients treated with radical …

Purpose: Prediction is central to the management of prostate cancer. Nomograms are
devices that make predictions. We organized many nomograms for prostate cancer …

Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease with a wide prognostic spectrum and a variety
of treatment options. Such a complex clinical scenario has led to uncertainty in risk …

OBJECTIVE: Several nomograms have been developed to predict outcomes related to
prostate cancer (PCa). METHODS: We provide a descriptive and an analytic comparison of …

CONTEXT: Numerous predictive and prognostic tools have recently been developed for risk
stratification of prostate cancer (PCa) patients who are candidates for or have been treated …

It can sometimes seem as though we are drowning in prediction models. Every month brings
a multitude of newly published risk calculators and nomograms to add to the multitude …