Author, as appears in the article.: Carles M; Vilaprinyo E; Cots F; Gregori A; Pla R; Román R; Sala M; Macià F; Castells X; Rue M
Department: Economia Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: Carles Lavila, Misericòrdia / GREGORI GOMIS, ALEIX / Pla Farnòs, Roger Jesús
Keywords: Us Stage Spain Screening Quality-adjusted life years Patterns Mortality Models, statistical Middle aged Mammography Life expectancy Humans Female Economic-evaluation Early detection of cancer Disease Cost-benefit analysis Cáncer de mama Breast neoplasms Avaluació econòmica de tecnologies sanitàries Aged, 80 and over Aged Age Adult
Abstract: Background: Breast cancer (BC) causes more deaths than any other cancer among women in Catalonia. Early detection has contributed to the observed decline in BC mortality. However, there is debate on the optimal screening strategy. We performed an economic evaluation of 20 screening strategies taking into account the cost over time of screening and subsequent medical costs, including diagnostic confirmation, initial treatment, follow-up and advanced care.Methods: We used a probabilistic model to estimate the effect and costs over time of each scenario. The effect was measured as years of life (YL), quality-adjusted life years (QALY), and lives extended (LE). Costs of screening and treatment were obtained from the Early Detection Program and hospital databases of the IMAS-Hospital del Mar in Barcelona. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was used to compare the relative costs and outcomes of different scenarios.Results: Strategies that start at ages 40 or 45 and end at 69 predominate when the effect is measured as YL or QALYs. Biennial strategies 50-69, 45-69 or annual 45-69, 40-69 and 40-74 were selected as cost-effective for both effect measures (YL or QALYs). The ICER increases considerably when moving from biennial to annual scenarios. Moving from no screening to biennial 50-69 years represented an ICER of 4,469€ per QALY.Conclusions: A reduced number of screening strategies have been selected for consideration by researchers, decision makers and policy planners. Mathematical models are useful to assess the impact and costs of BC screening in a specific geographical area. © 2011 Carles et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Química Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Oncology Odontología Nutrição Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar Genetics Farmacia Ensino Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Educação física Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciência de alimentos Ciência da computação Cancer research Biotecnología Biodiversidade Administração, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 14712407
Author's mail: rogerjesus.pla@urv.cat misericordia.carles@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3727-8933 0000-0003-3796-3014
Record's date: 2024-06-22
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2407-11-192
Papper original source: Bmc Cancer. 11 192-
APA: Carles M; Vilaprinyo E; Cots F; Gregori A; Pla R; Román R; Sala M; Macià F; Castells X; Rue M (2011). Cost-effectiveness of early detection of breast cancer in Catalonia (Spain). Bmc Cancer, 11(), 192-. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-192
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-192
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2011
Publication Type: Journal Publications