Posted on August 11, 2021 by Sitemaster
In 2016, we looked at the Candiolo risk stratification system for radiation therapy. To our knowledge, it has not been prospectively validated or widely adopted. … READ MORE …
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Posted on January 17, 2019 by Sitemaster
For many years researchers have been trying to identify so-called “surrogate” endpoints that can be used to predict overall and prostate cancer-specific survival with high accuracy. … READ MORE …
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Posted on December 16, 2015 by Sitemaster
A newly published paper from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center group in New York has proposed a predictive model which might allow a high percentage of candidates for active surveillance as initial management to skip a second, confirmatory biopsy after initial diagnosis. … READ MORE –
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