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TUESDAY, April 13 (HealthDayNews) -- An interactive online calculator provides prostate cancer patients with personalized 10-year survival predictions.
The calculator makes its prognosis based on a patient's age, race, clinical measures and the kind of prostate cancer treatment he's receiving. It was developed by researchers at the Josephine Ford Cancer Center in Detroit and the Artificial Neural Networks in Prostate Cancer Project in Denver.
They developed survival probability estimates by using data about 1,611 men with clinically localized prostate cancer as well as 4,538 controls matched for age, race and co-morbidity (additional diseases).
Information about the calculator appears in the April issue of the Journal of Urology.
More information
Here's where you can find the prostate survival calculator.
(SOURCE: Artificial Neural Networks in Prostate Cancer Project, news release, April 13, 2004)
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