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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Jan;38(1):60–67. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05148

Exhibit 2. Life-years gained per 100,000 eligible adults screened by low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) instead of chest x-ray, by risk of lung cancer death.

Exhibit 2

Source/Notes: SOURCE Authors’ analysis. NOTES The average is for all risk groups (explained in the text). In 2015, 6.82 million US adults were eligible for annual LDCT screening, as explained in the text. Whiskers indicate 95% confidence intervals. The interval bounds correspond to the people in a group at the 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles. For example, for people in the highest risk group over a lifetime horizon, the person at the 2.5 percentile gains 0.032 life-years (3,200 life-years per 100,000 people), whereas the person at the 97.5 percentile gains 0.0915 life-years (9,150 life years per 100,000 people).