Prognostigram

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The goal of this project is to develop an interactive, Web-based Prognostigram Program for adult patients with newly diagnosed cancer. The prognostic program will create individualized survival curves based on the Cox Proportional Hazards model of survival data from Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) Oncology Data Services (ODS) and SEER*Stat (National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Software package). The BJH ODS dataset has comorbid health status information. Unfortunately, the SEER*Stat program does not contain comorbid health information. To add the impact of comorbid health information to the SEER*Stat dataset, the Investigators will determine adjusted hazard ratios (i.e., adjusted for other important prognostic factors) for comorbidity from the BJH ODS database. Adjusted survival curves will be generated which take into account the impact of comorbid health information. The survival curve for cancer patients will be presented on the same figure as the survival curve for age, gender, and race-matched peers. This program will reside on a password-protected server at the Washington University Medical School Network Services.

For more information and an interactive demonstration:Click here

Head and Neck Cancer Prognostigram

The Prognostigram Generators are only for professional use or for patient use in a health care setting at this time.  If you would like the web address for the Prognostigram Generators please email your request to Jay F. Piccirillo, MD at piccirilloj@ent.wustl.edu