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Electronic clinical decision support tools (eCDSTs) improve practitioner performance and patient care, but their role in cancer diagnosis has not been adequately addressed. This review outlines the effectiveness of eCDSTs for cancer diagnosis and factors affecting their implementation. Decision support tools have been proposed as an approach to reduce delays in diagnosis, particularly for cancer with non specific symptom signatures. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first systematic review of available publications to inform eCDST implementation in primary care for the diagnosis of cancer.