Dr Maurie Markman discusses the cost-effectiveness of population-based multigene testing for breast and ovarian cancer prevention.
Professor of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; President, Medicine & Science, City of Hope Atlanta, Chicago, PhoenixHello. I'm Dr Maurie Markman, from City of Hope. I'd like to speak for the next few minutes on a very interesting modeling study that was recently published in
The alternative model that has been proposed is to say that family history isn't very good. We may not pick this up. People may not know their family history very well. They certainly may not know it in detail.
This analysis concluded that in almost any scenario they looked at, including doing a variety of sensitivity analyses, it was more cost-effective to do the population-based screening. This is actually very interesting because this is a point that we can look at. If one accepts this analysis and we can get this testing done well at that level of cost, is this something that we might, as a society, including insurance companies and Medicare, consider?
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