The new pulmonary resection for lung cancer risk calculator is engineered using contemporary data from the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database. It allows surgeons and multidisciplinary medical providers to estimate a patient’s individualized risk in real-time, based on specific factors such as tumor characteristics, comorbidities, and procedures performed. As patient factors are added by the user, the risk estimates of morbidity and mortality are dynamically calculated along 95% confidence intervals.
The pulmonary resection for lung cancer risk calculator is based on updated STS risk models using data from 140,927 patients at 337 hospitals from 2015 to 2022. This model reflects modern thoracic surgical trends and techniques, including the growing prevalence of minimally invasive and robot-assisted procedures. The new risk calculator for pulmonary resection of lung cancer offers superior performance and applicability, especially for high-risk patients.