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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• PASHAYAN, N
• DUFFY, S. W
• CHOWDHURY, S
• DENT, T
• BURTON, H
• NEAL, D. E
• EASTON, D. F
• EELES, R
• PHAROAH, P

Titel

Polygenic susceptibility to prostate and breast cancer: implications for personalised screening

Ist Teil von

• British journal of cancer, 2011-05, Vol.104 (10), p.1656-1663

Ort / Verlag

Basingstoke: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We modelled the efficiency of a personalised approach to screening for prostate and breast cancer based on age and polygenic risk-profile compared with the standard approach based on age alone. We compared the number of cases potentially detectable by screening in a population undergoing personalised screening with a population undergoing screening based on age alone. Polygenic disease risk was assumed to have a log-normal relative risk distribution predicted for the currently known prostate or breast cancer susceptibility variants (N=31 and N=18, respectively). Compared with screening men based on age alone (aged 55-79: 10-year absolute risk ≥2%), personalised screening of men age 45-79 at the same risk threshold would result in 16% fewer men being eligible for screening at a cost of 3% fewer screen-detectable cases, but with added benefit of detecting additional cases in younger men at high risk. Similarly, compared with screening women based on age alone (aged 47-79: 10-year absolute risk ≥2.5%), personalised screening of women age 35-79 at the same risk threshold would result in 24% fewer women being eligible for screening at a cost of 14% fewer screen-detectable cases. Personalised screening approach could improve the efficiency of screening programmes. This has potential implications on informing public health policy on cancer screening.