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<p class="lead" style="max-width:760px;">Browser-based tools for multidisciplinary lung cancer care, research planning, and education. Each tool runs locally in your browser.</p>
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<span class="tool-tag">Structured</span>
<h3>Lung cancer MDT form (v3.1)</h3>
<p>Structured multidisciplinary team form with TNM staging support, Charlson comorbidity index, itemised G8 screening, and registry-coded fields. Exports to JSON/CSV. Runs locally; no data is stored.</p>
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<h3>MDT structured (mini)</h3>
<p>A compact structured form covering the same items as the open form, with coded fields. Includes a Nordic language selector (English, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic) — the summary follows the chosen language. Runs locally; no data is stored.</p>
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<h3>MDT free-text form</h3>
<p>A narrative, free-text lung cancer MDT checklist adapted for Nordic use. A lighter, open-field alternative to the structured form. Includes the same Nordic language selector (6 languages). Runs locally; no data is stored.</p>
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<h3>Nodule management</h3>
<p>Pan-Nordic pulmonary nodule follow-up guidance: risk assessment, diagnostic pathways, and reporting principles.</p>
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<h3>LungRisk hub</h3>
<p>Compare published lung cancer screening criteria and person-level risk and nodule models (USPSTF, NELSON, PLCOm2012, HUNT, Brock) for education and research. No clinical action threshold is defined.</p>
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<h3>Screening risk explained</h3>
<p>A plain-language explanation of how lung cancer screening risk is estimated and what the numbers mean for patients and clinicians.</p>
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<h3>Nordic Nodule Pathway Sandbox</h3>
<p>A research sandbox for pulmonary nodule pathway development — gap-population analysis, Euclidean grey-zone geometry, four-centroid mixture decomposition and decision-boundary robustness. Browser-only; not a medical device.</p>
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<h3>Understanding treatment value</h3>
<p>An educational page explaining treatment-value concepts in thoracic oncology — overall survival, hazard ratio, absolute benefit, NNT, NNH, toxicity and quality of life.</p>
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<h3>Treatment Value Discussion Compass</h3>
<p>Structure a balanced discussion of benefit, toxicity, quality of life, evidence certainty and patient goals for a treatment decision.</p>
<div class="actions"><a class="btn btn-outline-primary" href="/decision-tool-v2.html">Open the compass</a></div>
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<h3>Structured Treatment Value Profile</h3>
<p>Systematically capture an educational treatment-value profile across overall survival benefit, hazard ratio, absolute benefit, NNT, NNH and toxicity.</p>
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<h3>Surveillance yield — Number Needed to Scan</h3>
<p>Estimate how many surveillance CTs are needed to detect one recurrence — or one actionable event — after lung cancer treatment, with a time-dependent recurrence hazard. Yield, not survival benefit.</p>
<div class="actions"><a class="btn btn-outline-primary" href="/surveillance-yield-calculator.html">Open the calculator</a></div>
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<h3>Nordic lung cancer trends</h3>
<p>Compare NORDCAN incidence and mortality trends by country and sex, with explicit rate definitions, provenance and presentation-ready exports.</p>
<div class="actions"><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://trends.ntog.org/">Explore Nordic trends</a></div>
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<h3>Lung cancer quality indicators</h3>
<p>Review 57 candidate Nordic indicators, their definitions, evidence, provenance and relationships before Delphi selection.</p>
<div class="actions"><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/lung-cancer-quality-indicators.html">Read the indicator draft</a></div>
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<span class="tool-tag">Research</span>
<h3>Study design & simulation builder</h3>
<p>Plan and simulate study designs — endpoints, assumptions and scenarios — for thoracic oncology research planning.</p>
<div class="actions"><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/study-builder.html">Open study builder</a></div>
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<span class="tool-tag">Research</span>
<h3>Federated dataset & visualisation builder</h3>
<p>Build a federated dataset specification and visualisations for multicentre Nordic research collaboration.</p>
<div class="actions"><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/federated-dataset-builder.html">Open dataset builder</a></div>
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