The widespread use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing has led to diagnostic difficulties for patients and urologists. The sensitivity and specificity characteristics of PSA are far from optimal. To try and improve the predictive accuracy of PSA measurements, nomograms and artificial neural networks have been created by many groups…
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Online cancer prediction tools
The prediction of any future event is fascinating and yet fraught with difficulty. Clinicians have always struggled with being able to accurately predict outcomes for patients and to balance the risks of any intervention. Traditionally, doctors relied on clinical judgment to predict outcomes but this has been shown to be…