Chennai, March 15 -- Highlights:

* PREDICT Prostate, a new web tool, can better inform the need for treatment and prognosis for patients with early stage prostate cancer

* It stratifies patients on the //basis of survival, which is taken to be the ultimate end-point of therapy

* The tool prevents misdiagnosis of prostate cancer, thereby saving patients from unnecessary treatments with severe side-effects

A new web tool has been developed that can predict the prognosis or outlook of a prostate cancer patient with early stage cancer, so that unnecessary treatment can be avoided, suggests a new study from the University of Cambridge, UK.

The tool, PREDICT Prostate, which has been developed using the latest evidence-based mathematical mo...