Identifying high-risk individuals for lung cancer screening: Going beyond NLST criteria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are two main types of strategies to identify target population for lung cancer screening: 1) strategies based on age and cumulative smoking criteria, 2) risk prediction models allowing the calculation of an individual risk. The objective of this study was to compare different strategies to identify the proportion of the Spanish population at high risk of developing lung cancer, susceptible to be included in a lung cancer screening programme.

Methods

Cross-sectional study. We used the data of the Spanish National Interview Health Survey (ENSE) of 2011-2012 (21,006 individuals) to estimate the proportion of participants at high risk of developing lung cancer. This estimation was performed using the U.S. national lung screening trial (NLST) criteria and a 6-yea

SUBMITTER: Fu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5886563 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature