Cancer Prediction Nomograms for Advanced Practitioners in Oncology
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چکیده
Cancer prediction nomograms provide advanced practitioners (APs) with tools to assess a patient’s overall risk for development of a specific cancer. Alternatively, after a cancer diagnosis has been made, nomograms represent a standardized means to provide a statistical estimate of prognosis, particularly in individuals with characteristics of high-risk disease. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), these prediction models are a means to “facilitate the design and planning of clinical cancer trials, foster the development of benefit-risk indices, and enable estimates of the population burden and cost of cancer” (NCI, 2014a).
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