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How much value to put on the numbers in the Decipher Grid?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 16 8:28am | Replies (12)
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Mark Scholz MD, 20 year prostate medical oncologist, who founded the Prostate Cancer Research Institute [pcri.org] commented on the genomic tests. He said that the risk assessments are based on old historical data. Presumably he meant before mpMRIs, PSMA PETCT scans. As I recall he found that the RISK prognostications were too pessimistic.

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topf | @topf | Apr 15 6:55pm

Yes, I saw that. He was mainly referring to the 15 year mortality risk. You need 15+ year old sata to estimTe that and mortality has drastically decreased since then. I don’t know if metastatic risk has decreased too.

My understanding is that the grid is still research in progress as the Decipher test is evolving. Jt would be interesting to know what the current state of knowledge is on these characteristics. In my case, e.g., what the implications of high glycolisis would be.

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