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Estimating the survival benefits gained from providing national cancer genetic services to women with a family history of breast cancer

Griffith, G. L., Edwards, R. T., Gray, J., Wilkinson, C., Turner, J. and France, Barabara 2004. Estimating the survival benefits gained from providing national cancer genetic services to women with a family history of breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer 90 (10) , pp. 1912-1919. 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601794

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to compare a service offering genetic testing and presymptomatic surveillance to women at increased risk of developing breast cancer with its predecessor of no service at all in terms of survival and quality-adjusted survival (QALYs) by means of a Markov cohort chain simulation model. Genetic assessment and presymptomatic care provided between 0.07-1.61 mean additional life years and 0.05-1.67 mean QALYs over no services. Prophylactic surgery and surveillance extended mean life expectancy by 0.41-1.61 and 0.32-0.99 years, respectively over no services for high-risk women. Model outcomes were sensitive to all the parameters varied in the sensitivity analysis. Providing cancer genetic services increase survival and as long as services do not induce adverse psychological effects they also provide more QALYs. The greatest survival and QALY benefits were found for women with identified mutations. As more cancer genes are identified, the survival and cost-effectiveness of genetic services will improve. Although mastectomy provided most additional life years, when quality of life was accounted for oophorectomy was the optimal strategy. Delayed entry into coordinated genetic services was found to diminish the average survival and QALY gains for a woman utilising these services.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 0007-0920
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Last Modified: 12 Dec 2014 13:30
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/68344

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