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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2018

ePCR: an R-package for survival and time-to-event prediction in advanced prostate cancer, applied to real-world patient cohorts.

Teemu D Laajala, Mika Murtojärvi, Arho Virkki, Tero Aittokallio

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Teemu D LaajalaDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Mika MurtojärviDepartment of Future Technologies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Arho VirkkiDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Tero AittokallioDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
University of Turku · FIFinland University · FI

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivation: Prognostic models are widely used in clinical decision-making, such as risk stratification and tailoring treatment strategies, with the aim to improve patient outcomes while reducing overall healthcare costs. While prognostic models have been adopted into clinical use, benchmarking their performance has been difficult due to lack of open clinical datasets. The recent DREAM 9.5 Prostate Cancer Challenge carried out an extensive benchmarking of prognostic models for metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC), based on multiple cohorts of open clinical trial data. Results: We make available an open-source implementation of the top-performing model, ePCR, along with an extended toolbox for its further re-use and development, and demonstrate how to best apply the implemented model to real-world data cohorts of advanced prostate cancer patients. Availability and implementation: The open-source R-package ePCR and its reference documentation are available at the Central R Archive Network (CRAN): https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ePCR. R-vignette provides step-by-step examples for the ePCR usage. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Polymerase Chain ReactionSoftwareHumansMalePrognosisProstatic Neoplasms

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PMID29912284
PMCPMC6223370
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