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Home » Newly Diagnosed or Active Surveillance » Step 3 – Newly Diagnosed (Find Your Risk Category)
Step 3 – Newly Diagnosed (Find Your Risk Category)
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Overwhelmed?
Take a break. Start researching again later. Remember that most prostate cancers are slow growing enough that you can take the time you really need to research for yourself. The research is a process, and your brain often needs a break. Put it down, and pick it up again later.
Every Prostate Cancer is DIFFERENT.
What’s Yours?
Use your
  • Gleason Score (use the highest one, if there is more than one Gleason)
  • Clinical Stage from DRE
  • PSA before biopsy
Also, are there any cancerous cores that are greater than 50% cancerous?
Now, use the info above ↑ to find your 3 different Risk Categories (below ↓).
D’Amico Risk Categories Are you? –
  • Low Risk
    (If you are Low Risk, consider additional pathology testing with Oncotype DX,  Prolaris, or Decipher )
  • Intermediate Risk
    (If you are Intermediate Risk, ASK if you are a candidate for additional pathology testing
    with Oncotype DX,  Prolaris, or Decipher )
  • High Risk

CAPRA Score

  • Calculate your Score
NCCN Risk Categories (See Pages 7-11 of document – requires free registration)

Are you? –

  • Very Low Risk
  • Low Risk
  • Intermediate Risk
  • High Risk
  • Very High Risk
Risk of What?…
  • The D’Amico Risk Categories tell you your risk of PSA recurrence
    5 years after surgery or radiation.

 

  • The NCCN Risk Categories tell you the same – your risk of PSA recurrence
    5 years after surgery or radiation.

 

  • The CAPRA Score  tell you something different –
    your probability of Progression Free Survival (PFS) at 10 years.

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PFS is the length of time a prostate cancer patient lives, but his cancer
doesn’t get worse or “progress”. (paraphrased from NCI)

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Step by Step – Newly Diagnosed

  • Step 1 (Obtain Records)
  • Step 2 (Highlight Key Information)
  • Step 3 (Find Your Risk Category)
  • Step 4 (Compare Treatments)
  • Step 5 (Develop Questions)

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