Data was extracted from the National Cancer Database.
Patients receiving radiation therapy during their first course of treatment.
The interactive app provides 1-year and 5-year survival estimates based on a nomogram that was derived from Cox PH regression models.
Estimated risk category is obtained from output of Cox PH regression, and categorized based on predetermined quantile thresholds.
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