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Individualized Lung Cancer Risks and Screening Benefit Calculator

DCEG investigators developed models to estimate a current or former smoker’s risk of developing lung cancer and their gain in life-expectancy from lung cancer screening, freely available online at ScreenLC.com. These models included:

  • Lung Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (LCRAT)
  • Lung Cancer Death Risk Assessment Tool (LCDRAT)
  • Life-Years from Screening-CT (LYFS-CT)

They are recommended for use by the American College of Chest Physicians.

University of Utah investigators implemented the models as a clinical decision-making tool within Epic Electronic Health Records, known as Decision Precision+ (DP+). In a randomized trial, use of DP+ increased uptake of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer 5-fold (from 4% to 20%). DP+ is available to health systems using Epic for free, with implementation support provided by a grant from the Agency for Health Research and Quality.

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Link to ScreenLC web based tool

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Email: Li Cheung

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