External validation of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center nomogram and prediction of optimal candidate for lymph node dissection in clinically localized prostate cancer

Abstract

MSKCC nomogram in patients with PCa undergoing PLND has 79% discriminated accuracy for prediction of LNI in our cohort. Using a 7% nomogram cut-off, roughly 40% of men would be spared PLND with minimal risk to miss LNI.