Original broadcast date: March 23, 2008
A comprehensive, clinical nomogram tool, the Sunnybrook Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator – the first to use all known risk factors for prostate cancer – is available online to help men determine individual prostate cancer risk in consultation with their primary care physician. A nomogram is a statistical model to determine risk for disease based on risk factors using a table and chart format.
- Dr. Robert Nam, urological oncologist at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto associate professor
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