Prostate Clinical Outlook Visualization System for Patients and Clinicians Considering Cyberknife Treatment—A Personalized Approach

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 8; no. 3; p. 471
• Main Authors: Park, Jihwan, Rho, Mi, Dritschilo, Anatoly, Choi, In, Mun, Seong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2018
• Subjects: Cancer therapies; clinical decision support system; Data analysis; Decision making; Language; Medical screening; Patients; Prostate cancer; Quality of life; Radiation therapy; stereotactic body radiation therapy; Survival; Survival analysis; Urology; User interface; Variation; Visualization; United States > US
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app8030471

[...]the PCOVS made three different analysis data sets including (1) survival analysis; (2) the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC-26) scores; and (3) the PCOVS risk calculator (Figure 2). Because of the reference graph had whole BCR-free survival patient data, it was not affected by the number of patients filter in the patient’s information input form. The strata table had number of patients, for each days of time point, calculated by eliminating the number of censored patients. Because the SBRT treated patients had high relapse free survival probability, it was important to focus on the quality of life of patients (Figure 6). Using the PSA trend viewer, the physician found the pattern of PSA fluctuation differences from relapsed and relapsed free patients. Because the PCOVS generated those PSA view for each individual patient by searching for the patient id on the web-based form, the physician did not need to create a graph from excel documents manually.