Clinical calculator of conditional survival estimates for resected and unresected survivors of pancreatic cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To calculate conditional survival estimates for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Design

We constructed separate multivariate survival models adjusted for 7 clinicopathologic factors for patients who did and did not undergo radical surgical resection.

Participants

Patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma diagnosed between 1988 and 2005 included in the Surveillance Epidemiology End Results cancer registry.

Main outcome measure

Internet browser-based calculator to compute personalized survival estimates.

Results

Conditional survival probabilities increased over time for all patients with pancreatic cancer regardless of patient characteristics, disease stage, or treatment. For patients with resected stage I, II, or III disease, 3-year condit

SUBMITTER: Katz MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3740148 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature