Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have pioneered the use of computerized devices to help patients and their physicians decide among the major treatment choices for several cancers.
Rather than relying on general risk groups of patient populations who share similar characteristics, our prediction tools provide specific information.
Our currently available tools include:
- those that predict outcomes for surgery and radiation therapy in prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and sarcoma
- a tool that predicts survival for men with prostate cancer considering hormone refractory treatment (HRT) after prostatectomy or radiation therapy
- tools that predicts the chance of breast cancer's spread to the sentinel lymph nodes and from the sentinel lymph nodes to axillary lymph nodes
- tools that predicts patient risk after surgery for gastric cancer
- a tool to help assess lung cancer risk of long-term cigarette smokers.
- tools designed to assist physicians in predicting a patient's probability and length of survival after pancreatic and bladder cancer surgery
- a tool to help predict the probability of being disease-free from colon cancer after surgery
- a tool that predicts the likelihood that disease has spread to lymph nodes in patients with melanoma
The lung and sarcoma prediction tools are available in both an easy-to-use online version, as well as downloadable Palm (including Treo 600), Pocket PC, and Macromedia Flash programs. The gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, and renal cell carcinoma prediction tools are available in Palm or Pocket PC versions only. The bladder, colorectal, prostate, and breast tools are available in an online version.
To use the prediction tools online, make a selection from the menu below. If you would like a copy of any of the downloadable programs, choose the "Request Software" option found in the left-hand navigation. You'll be asked to enter your e-mail address, after which a message containing a Software Transfer Agreement, Downloading Instructions, and links to the various programs will be sent.
