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Why is volume of the cancer not used?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 22, 2023 | Replies (26)

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@ozelli

I agree. I think volume should rank up there with number of cores positive but even that metric took a while to take hold.

I personally think AI should make questions like this moot but it needs data to develop models and that may take a few years. The technology is there we just need the humans to agree on frameworks about storing peoples medical records anonymously for research efforts and the like. Not going to happen overnight unfortunately,

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Thanks @ozelli, one must admit that a system as is, one that allows 5 times as much Gleason 4 to be called less serious than the one with only 20% of the Gleason 4, must be called totally broken. That x+y gleason stuff is antique, I mean in past it seemed a way to quickly be quantitative but no longer. I understand how and where it came from but still, as it is it makes significant gross errors by the way it is done. It is a system that allows 5 times as much gleason 4 to pass as less serious than only 20% of the gleason 4. That has huge ramifications. They need to make some corrections. I guess it won't happen soon, so yeah what can we do? Not much as individuals perhaps.