Development and validation of a risk prediction model for lung cancer with common health examination indexes
Year: 2019
Session type: Poster / e-Poster / Silent Theatre session
Theme: Early detection, diagnosis and prognosis
Abstract
Background
Lung cancer has been the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer-related death for several decades worldwide, especially in China, the most populous country. Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been proven to reduce lung cancer mortality. A user-friendly lung cancer risk perdition model could help standardize the selection of high-risk population for LDCT screening and alter individuals’ lifestyle factors to lower their risk. We thus sought to develop and internally validate a simple model for lung cancer based on a prospective cohort study in China.
Method
A total of 138,150 people was prospectively observed from 2006 to 2015 for lung cancer incidence. Stepwise multivariable-adjusted logistic regressions with Pentry=0.15 and Pstay=0.20 were conducted to select the candidate variables included in the prediction model. Concordance statistics (C-statistics) and Hosmer–Lemeshow tests were used to evaluate discrimination and calibration, respectively. Ten-fold cross-validation was used for internal validation.
Results
During a median of 9-year follow-up, a total of 1088 (0.79 %) lung cancer cases were identified. The simple model including age and smoking generated a C-statistics of 0.71. The full model additionally included sex, alcohol consumption, body mass index (BMI), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and C-reactive protein (CRP) showed significantly better predictive performance regarding discrimination (C-statistics=0.73, P<0.01). In 10-fold cross-validation, the average C-statistic across the 10 test sets was similar (0.73). Model calibrated well across deciles of predicted risk (PHL=0.48). The predicted risk of lung cancer in the top decile was 0.04% vs. 2.36% in the bottom decile (Odds ratio [OR]=98.16).
Conclusion
We developed and internally validated an easy-to-use risk prediction model for lung cancer among the Chinese population that could provide guidance for LDCT screening and early detection of lung cancer.