Prostate Cancer

Classification and regression tree analysis used to predict prostate cancer

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, April 3rd, 2006

Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis was used to predict prostate cancer.

According to recent research from the United States, "Prostate cancer screening allows early cancer detection but not all patients benefit from subsequent therapy. Thus, identifying patients who are likely to harbor aggressive cancer could significantly decrease the number of prostate biopsies performed. Data were collected on 1,563 consecutive referred men with serum PSA 10 ng/ml or less who underwent an initial prostate biopsy."

"Predictors of aggressive cancer (Gleason sum 7 or greater) were identified using CART analysis," explained S.E.F. Spurgeon and...

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