What Information Will I Need?

If you have not yet received treatment for your prostate cancer, you will need to have the following information in order to use the nomogram:

• your most recent PSA (prostate specific antigen) value
• your primary and secondary Gleason grade
• your doctor's assessment of your clinical stage (using the 1992 or 1997 UICC system)
• if you've already seen a radiation oncologist, the radiation therapy dose that he or she would deliver.
• the number of positive cores found during biopsy
• the number of negative cores found during biopsy
• whether or not you have had neo-adjuvant hormones
• whether or not you have had neo-adjuvant radiation

Pre-Treatment Worksheet

For a more detailed list, try our printable and easy-to-use Pre-Treatment Worksheet. (The Worksheet is a pdf file. The Adobe Acrobat plug-in is required. Click here to download free plug-in from Adobe.)

If you have already received surgery (prostatectomy), you may need to have or to know the following information to complete the nomogram:

• your PSA (prostate specific antigen) value prior to surgery (and prior to hormone therapy, if you received it)
• your PSA at the time of prostatectomy
• your primary Gleason at surgery
• your secondary Gleason at surgery
• your prostatectomy Gleason Sum
• the year of prostatectomy
• the months disease free
• whether or not your surgical margins were positive
• whether or not cancer was found in your seminal vesicles
• whether or not there was extra-capsular extension
• whether or not cancer was found in your lymph nodes (if any were removed)
• pre-radiotherapy PSA
• radiation dose (if applicable)
• whether surgical margins were positive or negative (if applicable)
• whether there was seminal vesicle involvment (if applicable)
• whether there was lymph node involvment (if applicable)
• whether there was extra capsular involvement (if applicable)
• whether or not you have had neo-adjuvant hormones
• whether or not you have had neo-adjuvant radiation

Post-Radical Prostatectomy Worksheet

For a more detailed list, try our printable and easy-to-use Post-Radical Prostatectomy Worksheet. (The Worksheet is a pdf file. The Adobe Acrobat plug-in is required. Click here to download free plug-in from Adobe.)

If you are considering receiving hormone refractory treatment, you will need to know the following information to complete the Hormone Refractory portion of the nomogram:

• your Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS)
• your Hemoglobin (HGB) value
• your PSA
• your Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) value
• your Alkaline Phosphatase (ALK) value
• your Albumin value

Hormone Refractory Treatment Worksheet

For a more detailed list, try our printable and easy-to-use Hormone Refractory Worksheet. (The Worksheet is a pdf file. The Adobe Acrobat plug-in is required. Click here to download free plug-in from Adobe.)

The additional tools portion of the prostate nomogram -- which includes statistical devices measuring volume and PSA doubling time -- is not required to complete the nomogram. However, if you would like to use any of these features, you will need to have the following information:

Volume

To use and complete the volume portion of the nomogram, you will need to know the following information:

• Prostate length
• Width/transverse
• Prostate height
• Pre-treatment PSA

PSA Doubling Time

To use and complete the PSA doubling time portion of the nomogram, you will need to know the following information:

• at least two PSA test results
• the date the tests were taken