Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4306459 | Surgery | 2016 | 8 Pages |
BackgroundWith the large amounts of data on patient, tumor, and treatment factors available to clinicians, it has become critically important to harness this information to guide clinicians in discussing a patient's prognosis. However, no widely accepted survival calculator is available that uses national data and includes multiple prognostic factors. Our objective was to develop a model for predicting survival among patients diagnosed with breast cancer using the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) to serve as a prototype for the Commission on Cancer's “Cancer Survival Prognostic Calculator.”Patients and methodsA retrospective cohort of patients diagnosed with breast cancer (2003–2006) in the NCDB was included. A multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model to predict overall survival was developed. Model discrimination by 10-fold internal cross-validation and calibration was assessed.ResultsThere were 296,284 patients for model development and internal validation. The c-index for the 10-fold cross-validation ranged from 0.779 to 0.788 after inclusion of all available pertinent prognostic factors. A plot of the observed versus predicted 5 year overall survival showed minimal deviation from the reference line.ConclusionThis breast cancer survival prognostic model to be used as a prototype for building the Commission on Cancer's “Cancer Survival Prognostic Calculator” will offer patients and clinicians an objective opportunity to estimate personalized long-term survival based on patient demographic characteristics, tumor factors, and treatment delivered.