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I am sorry to say that I will not be of much help to you because I did not have surgery, so could not test the various options.
I have over the years used a number of the Nomograms (incidentally, for anyone interetested there are a number listed here Prostate Cancer Calculators ) and found that the results were very inconsistent, which is understandable. After all the various calculatros are using different data and different interprtetations of that data.
I also found it very useful to understand clearly that the calculators demonstrate the median probable outcomes - and that it was more imprtant to understand the range of potential outcomes. It is also importan to try to establish when the data was gathered because of the effect of the so-called Gleason Migration that has occured over the past ten years or so following the decision to no longer label diagnoses with a Gleason Score below 6 after a needle biopsy as 'cancer'.
All in all I personally found little value in the calculators.
