Tumor grade improves the prognostic ability of American Joint Committee on Cancer stage in patients with penile carcinoma.

  • Rodolphe Thuret
  • Maxine Sun
  • Firas Abdollah
  • Lars Budäus
  • Giovanni Lughezzani
  • Daniel Liberman
  • Monica Morgan
  • Rupinder Johal
  • Claudio Jeldres
  • Mathieu Latour
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • François Iborra
  • Jacques Guiter
  • Jean-Jacques Patard
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

Penile cancer is rare. Thus, predicting cancer specific mortality may be difficult. We devised an accurate and yet easily applicable predictive rule that compares favorably with 2 previous models (73.8% and 74.7% accuracy, respectively).

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Original languageGerman
Article number2
ISSN0022-5347
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21167526