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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jan 30, 2023 | Replies (69)

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@polianad22

How did you use the algorithm?

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The Tufts algorithm looks at recurrence risk for ipsilateral cancer. To that extent it's a bit limited. I think all of these algorithms are pretty much the same in that they look at variables for which there are breast cancer data pools including age of first cancer, number of cancer-free lymph nodes, and size of cancer mass. I assume that they also assume that the cancer was surgically or otherwise removed. But here's one of the algorithms online:

https://cts5-calculator.com/