Quantified treatment effect at the individual level is more indicative for personalized radical prostatectomy recommendation: implications for prostate cancer treatment using deep learning.

Journal: Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: There are potential uncertainties and overtreatment existing in radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer (PCa) patients, thus identifying optimal candidates is quite important.

Authors

  • Huiqing Pan
    School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
  • Jiayi Wang
    Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University.
  • Weizhong Shi
    Shanghai Hospital Development Center, Shanghai, China.
  • Ziqin Xu
    Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America.
  • Enzhao Zhu
    School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.