The purpose of our study was to establish a reliable and practical nomogram based on significant clinical factors to predict the overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) of patients with germ cell testicular cancer (GCTC). Patients diagnosed with GCTC between 2004 and 2015 were obtained from the SEER database. Nomograms were constructed using the R software to predict the OS and CSS probabilities and the constructed nomograms were validated and calibrated. A total of 22,165 GCTC patients were enrolled in the study, including the training cohort (15,515 patients) and the validation cohort (6,650 patients). In the training cohort, multivariate Cox regression showed that age, race, AJCC stage, SEER stage and surgery were independent prognostic factors for OS, while age, race, AJCC stage, TM stage, SEER stage and radiotherapy were independent prognostic factors for CSS. Based on the above Cox regression results, we constructed prognostic nomograms of OS and CSS in GCTC patients and found that the OS nomograms had higher C-index and AUC compared to TNM stage in the training and validation cohorts. In addition, in the training and external validation cohorts, the calibration curves showed a good consistency between the predicted and actual 3-, 5- and 10-year OS and CSS rates of the nomogram. The current prognostic nomogram can provide a personalized risk assessment for the survival of GCTC patients.
Aging. 2020 Nov 02 [Epub]
Weipu Mao, Jianping Wu, Qingfang Kong, Jian Li, Bin Xu, Ming Chen
Department of Urology, People’s Hospital of Putuo, Shanghai 200060, China., Department of Urology, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China., Department of Nosocomial Infection, Affiliated Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China., Department of Urology, The People’s Hospital of Jinhu, Huaian 211600, Jiangsu Province, China.