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Prospective Multi-Institutional Study Evaluating the Performance of Prostate Cancer Risk Calculators

Robert K. Nam, Michael W. Kattan, Joseph L. Chin, John Trachtenberg, Rajiv K. Singal, Ricardo Rendon, Laurence Klotz, Linda Sugar, Christopher Sherman, Jonathan I. Izawa,

Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2011 · 96 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

The SRC performed better than the PRC, but neither one added clinical benefit for risk thresholds of less than 30%. Further research is needed to improve the AUCs of the risk calculators, particularly for higher-grade cancer.

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