CAPRA prostate-cancer risk score (UCSF)
UCSF CAPRA score (Cooperberg 2005): a 0-10 predictor of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy from age, PSA, the Gleason axis, clinical stage, and percent positive biopsy cores.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Age at diagnosis
- 60 years
- PSA at diagnosis
- 7 ng/mL
- Primary Gleason pattern
- Pattern 3
- Secondary Gleason pattern
- Pattern 4
- Clinical T stage
- T1 or T2
- Positive biopsy cores
- 20 %
Result: CAPRA 3 of 10 -- intermediate risk of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy (0-2 low, 3-5 intermediate, 6-10 high).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- 0-2
- Low risk of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.
- 3-5
- Intermediate risk; roughly double the recurrence risk for each 2-point rise.
- 6-10
- High risk of biochemical recurrence.
What you enter
- Age at diagnosis
- PSA at diagnosis
- Primary Gleason pattern
- Secondary Gleason pattern
- Clinical T stage
- Positive biopsy cores
How this is calculated
Cooperberg MR, Pasta DJ, Elkin EP, et al. The University of California, San Francisco Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment score: a straightforward and reliable preoperative predictor of disease recurrence after radical prostatectomy. J Urol. 2005;173(6):1938-1942. Read the source ↗
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