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Online program helps predict survivability

PORTLAND, Ore., June 29 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have developed an online program that can help head and neck cancer patients better predict their survivability.

Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers say the new tool can help make personalized predictions of conditional survival for an individual patient depending on his or her specific situation.

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The statistical system takes into account the age when the patient was diagnosed with cancer and the time elapsed since diagnosis.

The Web-browser software tool, called the regression model, can calculate a patient's conditional survival based on the patient's age, gender and race, and tumor site, stage and aggressiveness, according to principal investigator Dr. Sam Wang.

The study was recently presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncologists.

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