To help men understand their diagnosis and prognosis and make treatment decisions, we have created a set of online tools called the Prostate Cancer Assessment Tools. If your doctor has recommended a prostate biopsy or you have prostate cancer, use the tools to answer a variety of questions, such as:

• What are the odds a biopsy will find cancer?
• What are the chances my cancer has spread outside the prostate?
• What are the odds my cancer will relapse after surgery?
• What are the odds I will die of prostate cancer?

You will need information from your doctor, such as biopsy results, test results, Gleason scores, etc. All results should be brought back to your doctor for further informed discussion regarding treatment options. The information you find is not a substitute for your doctor’s diagnosis or prognosis. It is meant to help you and your doctors make clinical decisions.

These tools created by a team of researchers led by Dr. Pierre Karakiewicz, MD, urologist and director of the Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit at the University of Montreal Health Centre. They are based on nomograms - statistic tools based on thousands of real-life prostate cancer cases – that were published in the Journal of Urology. These tools are, on average, 80 per cent accurate and provide calculated predictions of outcomes and are free of bias and subjectivity.

Use the Prostate Cancer Assessment Tools. Assessment Disclaimer.

Information published on the Prostate Cancer Canada website is provided for informational and educational purposes only. Information provided on this website, including information derived from the Prostate Cancer Assessment Tools (PCATs) and the prostate cancer nomograms, is not designed or intended to constitute medical advice or to be used for diagnosis. The PCATs are intended to provide information on your condition and to help inform your consultations with medical professionals. The information obtained from this website should not be a substitute for medical advice from a qualified medical professional.

Prostate Cancer Canada and the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal assume no responsibility or liability for any consequence resulting directly or indirectly for any action or inaction you take based on or made in reliance on the information, services, or material on or linked to this site.