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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Risk Assessment of Early Lung Cancer with LDCT and Health Examinations.

Hou-Tai Chang, Ping-Huai Wang, Wei-Fang Chen, Chen-Ju Lin

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Risk prediction for lung cancer screening: a systematic review and meta-regression.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  6. Big Data, Decision Models, and Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hou-Tai ChangDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 22000, Taiwan.
Ping-Huai WangDivision of Thoracic Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 22000, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0304-4258
Wei-Fang ChenDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Management, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan 32003, Taiwan.
Chen-Ju LinDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Management, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan 32003, Taiwan.
Far Eastern Memorial Hospital · TWYuan Ze University · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early detection of lung cancer has a higher likelihood of curative treatment and thus improves survival rate. Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening has been shown to be effective for high-risk individuals in several clinical trials, but has high false positive rates. To evaluate the risk of stage I lung cancer in the general population not limited to smokers, a retrospective study of 133 subjects was conducted in a medical center in Taiwan. Regularized regression was used to build the risk prediction model by using LDCT and health examinations. The proposed model selected seven variables related to nodule morphology, counts and location, and ten variables related to blood tests and medical history, achieving an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.93. The higher the age, white blood cell count (WBC), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), diabetes, gout, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), other cancers, and the presence of spiculation, ground-glass opacity (GGO), and part solid nodules, the higher the risk of lung cancer. Subjects with calcification, solid nodules, nodules in the middle lobes, more nodules, and diseases related to thyroid, liver, and digestive systems were at a lower risk. The selected variables did not indicate causation.

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Early Detection of CancerLung NeoplasmsHumansRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentTomography, X-Ray Computedregularized regressionrisk predictionstage I lung cancer

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PMID35457500
PMCPMC9033135
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