> Post Operative Risk Recurrence Equation
Biostatistical
models predicting the risk of recurrence after radical prostatectomy
for clinically localized prostate cancer are necessary.
In our analysis
we evaluated age, race, prostatic acid phosphatase and nuclear grade
with the established prognostic variables of pretreatment prostate
specific antigen, postoperative Gleason sum and pathological stage.
After multivariable
Cox regression analysis using only statistically significant variables
that predicted recurrence we developed an equation that calculates
the relative risk of recurrence (Rr) after surgery.
This model
was validated with an independent cohort of radical prostatectomy
patients treated at a different medical centers by multiple primary
surgeons.
By filling
in the form, the patient's relative risk of recurrence will be calculated
using the equation we developed.
For a complete
copy of the article this equation is published in, please see Oncology,
August 2001, Volume 15, Number 8, pp 1060-1062.
