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How to use Adjuvant! Online
: introduction
Using prognostic factors to modify the 10-y mortality estimate.
Adjuvant! allows you to take into account prognostic
information and to modify Adjuvant!'s prognostic estimate for
outcome (based on tumor size, number of nodes, histologic
grade, and estrogen receptor status) in 3 basic ways.
1.
Using a prognostic calculator to adjust for impact of additional prognostic
information
requires estimate of the prevalence of a positive test and a
relative risk estimate.
2.
By directly entering a prognostic estimate from a literature source into the 10
Year Risk box.
3. By simply toggling the number in the 10 Year Risk Box until it
seems about right
(guessing)
.
19-9-2017