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Predict - Breast Cancer app
I’ve just discovered an app called ‘Predict - Breast Cancer’. I may be late to the party on this one and you might all know about it but I’d like to know your opinions if you’ve used it and if you’ve discussed it with your oncologists.
It strongly recommends that patients use this tool in consultation with their doctor.
The app’s blurb says:
“This tool applies to women who have had surgery for early invasive breast cancer and are deciding which other treatments to have.”
”Predict is a tool that helps show how breast cancer treatments after surgery might improve survival rates. Once details about the patient and their cancer have been entered, the tool will show how different treatments would be expected to improve survival rates up to 15 years after diagnosis. This is based on data from similar women in the past. It is important to note that these treatments have side effects which should also be considered when deciding on a treatment.”
It claims:
”Development of the model was a collaborative project between the Cambridge Breast Unit, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology and the UK's Eastern Cancer Information and Registration Centre (ECRIC) (now part of the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service) and was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer Limited (the company had no input into the model at all).
The website has been built by the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge who are funded by a generous donation from the David and Claudia Harding Foundation and the Winton Charitable Foundation.
Predict has been endorsed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer.”
This is a link to the app:
https://breast.v3.predict.cam/tool
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SYLV1E I read about it on these forums a while back and have played with the tool a few times as my situation became more clear. I've always been a bit of a nerd for numbers :)
My medical oncologist used either that or a similar tool (he had the screen angled away from me) to talk through numbers with me. I was surprised not to be given anything on paper however the things he mentioned sounded similar to the predict tool.
I've found it useful to tinker with the options - changing some values has bigger impact than others - so I've better understood my specific situation, how it differs from others, and why the medical team has recommended this path.
