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Analyzing treatment sequences in metastatic prostate cancer patients revealed that incorporating time intervals improves survival outcome prediction. This approach offers valuable insights for clinicians to optimize patient treatment strategies.

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  • Oncology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Metastatic prostate cancer presents a higher mortality rate compared to localized forms.
  • Investigating survival outcomes specific to metastatic prostate cancer is crucial.
  • Patient treatment pathways significantly influence overall survival.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze treatment sequences and time intervals in metastatic prostate cancer patients.
  • To identify insights into survival outcomes based on treatment progression.
  • To evaluate a novel time-range based sequence mining approach for treatment analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Collected and analyzed data from 407 metastatic prostate cancer patients at an Indian tertiary care center.
  • Applied sequence mining algorithms with exact order constraints to treatment data.
  • Integrated time intervals into frequent sequences and utilized machine learning with clinical data.

Main Results:

  • The proposed time-range based sequence mining methodology achieved 84.5% accuracy and 0.89 AUC.
  • This approach demonstrated superior performance compared to existing methods.
  • Identified the significance of time intervals in treatment sequences for survival analysis.

Conclusions:

  • Time-range based sequence mining offers valuable insights for clinicians.
  • This methodology can aid in determining optimal treatment lines for individual patients.
  • The findings contribute to improved survival outcome prediction in metastatic prostate cancer.