Raisa S Pompe, Marco Bandini, Felix Preisser, Michele Marchioni, Emanuele Zaffuto, Zhe Tian, Georg Salomon, Thorsten Schlomm, Hartwig Huland, Markus Graefen, Derya Tilki, Shahrokh F Shariat, Pierre I Karakiewicz
BACKGROUND: Early biochemical recurrence (eBCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) heralds poor oncological outcomes and may be prevented with adjuvant radiation (aRT). METHODS: We developed a contemporary eBCR nomogram in 13 797 RP patients from Hamburg (2005-2016) and externally validated it in 5952 RP patients from Vienna. Receiver operating characteristics-derived area under the curve (AUC), Heagerty's C-index, and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to quantify model accuracy and to compare the current tool with the Walz nomogram, the online Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) nomogram and the post-surgical Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assesment (CAPRA-S)...
September 2018: Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases