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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Imaging. 2015 Mar;30(2):79–87. doi: 10.1097/RTI.0000000000000136

TABLE 6.

Costs Per Person (Discounted at 3%)

CT Radiography No
Screening
Total $3074 $1911 $1443
  Screening $1130 $336 $0
  Workup $835 $645 $512
  Treatment $1106 $931 $931
    Surgery $736 $470 $470
    Chemotherapy $282 $351 $351
    Radiation therapy $88 $110 $110
  Radiation-induced lung
    cancer
$3 $0 $0

Reprinted with permission from Black et al.6

*

Costs include time and travel, which were $101 for each screening, workup, and surgical visit. The time and travel cost for each radiation therapy visit was $175 and for each chemotherapy visit was $381.

Includes cost of managing potentially significant incidental findings.