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They do use grade, hormone status, her status, nodes, grade and age. Both websites do. So I'm not sure what you were looking at but its wrong. Comorbides are accounted for in the adjuvant one. However, Drs can tweak the results one way or another using the prognosis butten. I think the Predict website has the better one. ... View more

You can get into the adjuvant website as I did. They dont check your credentials. ... View more

  I made exactly the same choice as you for exactly the same reason.  Chemo is not something to be taken lightly.  I had a 15cm her+ stage 1a grade 3 and im 50 and according to the prediction and adjuvant websites chemo may ony improve my odds by 8 to 12 percent. However, upon researching the vital staistics of the particular chemo treatments I found the risks to be higher that the possible benefits.   Now if I had stats that were different like a 50 percent chance Il die with out and in improves my odds by 40 percent then I would probably take the risk.  Be careful to check what info the Dr enters on the Adjuvant website and the prognois button allows them to make your outcome look better or worse.  I enjoyed reading your thoughts JCJ. As they were very much like my own. ... View more