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Today’s news addresses the wide range of “predictive tools” now available to offer prognostic guidance in the management of prostate cancer and the ways in which personality affects treatment decision-making.
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van den Bergh et al. have conducted a careful investigation of the potential problem caused by the use of different predictive tools for risk of a positive result of prostate biopsy. It is very clear that different nomograms and similar tools can produce divergent outcomes in the same man.
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Today’s news items all focus on issues that are closely connected to the recent and controversial guidelines issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force: The accuracy of current methods for predicting the likelihood of clinically insignificant (indolent) prostate cancer The management of patients found to have incidental prostate cancer on treatment for benign prostatic [...]
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: BPH, cancer, elderly, indolent, insignificant, Kattan, life expectancy, mortality, news, nomogram, patients, prediction, prostate, prostatectomy, radical, survival, update | Leave a Comment »
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