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van den Puttelaar R, Meester RGS, Peterse EFP, Zauber AG, Zheng J, Hayes RB, Su YR, Lee JK, Thomas M, Sakoda LC, Li Y, Corley DA, Peters U, Hsu L, Lansdorp-Vogelaar I. Risk-Stratified Screening for Colorectal Cancer Using Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Based on Real-World Data. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2023; 21:3415-3423.e29. [PMID: 36906080 PMCID: PMC10491743 DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2023.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/13/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS Previous studies on the cost-effectiveness of personalized colorectal cancer (CRC) screening were based on hypothetical performance of CRC risk prediction and did not consider the association with competing causes of death. In this study, we estimated the cost-effectiveness of risk-stratified screening using real-world data for CRC risk and competing causes of death. METHODS Risk predictions for CRC and competing causes of death from a large community-based cohort were used to stratify individuals into risk groups. A microsimulation model was used to optimize colonoscopy screening for each risk group by varying the start age (40-60 years), end age (70-85 years), and screening interval (5-15 years). The outcomes included personalized screening ages and intervals and cost-effectiveness compared with uniform colonoscopy screening (ages 45-75, every 10 years). Key assumptions were varied in sensitivity analyses. RESULTS Risk-stratified screening resulted in substantially different screening recommendations, ranging from a one-time colonoscopy at age 60 for low-risk individuals to a colonoscopy every 5 years from ages 40 to 85 for high-risk individuals. Nevertheless, on a population level, risk-stratified screening would increase net quality-adjusted life years gained (QALYG) by only 0.7% at equal costs to uniform screening or reduce average costs by 1.2% for equal QALYG. The benefit of risk-stratified screening improved when it was assumed to increase participation or costs less per genetic test. CONCLUSIONS Personalized screening for CRC, accounting for competing causes of death risk, could result in highly tailored individual screening programs. However, average improvements across the population in QALYG and cost-effectiveness compared with uniform screening are small.
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; Biostatistics Unit, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California; Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California; Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Niedermaier T, Guo F, Weigl K, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H. Combined performance of fecal immunochemical tests and a genetic risk score for advanced neoplasia detection. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 2022; 15:543-552. [PMID: 35679356 DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.capr-21-0552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) are increasingly used as noninvasive screening tests in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are increasingly propagated for risk stratification in CRC screening. We aimed to assess the potential of combining FIT results and PRS to enhance diagnostic accuracy of detecting advanced neoplasia (AN) compared to using FIT results alone. Of 10,362 participants of screening colonoscopy in Southern Germany who conducted either one of two quantitative FITs, genotyping was done in all participants with advanced neoplasia (CRC or advanced adenoma) and a random subset of controls. Among 5,306 individuals, a PRS was calculated based on the number of risk alleles in 140 single nucleotide polymorphisms. Partial areas under the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves (pAUCs) were computed for FIT and PRS alone and combined, focusing on a specificity range of 100%-80%. Both FITs showed similar performance characteristics with pAUCs (95%CIs) of 0.661 (0.625-0.698) (Ridascreen Hemoglobin) and 0.682 (0.661-0.701) (FOB Gold) for AN detection. PRS alone reached a pAUC (95%CI) of 0.524 (0.499-0.550) and 0.530 (0.516-0.545), respectively, and its addition to FIT did not improve pAUCs (0.659 (0.622-0.697) and 0.667 (0.650-0.687), respectively). This finding was confirmed by investigating sensitivities at fixed specificities at 85%, 90% and 95%. Partial AUCs also did not improve when adding the weighted PRS to FIT instead of the unweighted PRS. In summary, the combination with PRS did not improve diagnostic accuracy of FIT-based screening in a large asymptomatic CRC screening population from South-Western Germany.
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- German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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Schaid DJ, Sinnwell JP, Batzler A, McDonnell SK. Polygenic risk for prostate cancer: Decreasing relative risk with age but little impact on absolute risk. Am J Hum Genet 2022; 109:900-908. [PMID: 35353984 PMCID: PMC9118111 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for a variety of diseases have recently been shown to have relative risks that depend on age, and genetic relative risks decrease with increasing age. A refined understanding of the age dependency of PRSs for a disease is important for personalized risk predictions and risk stratification. To further evaluate how the PRS relative risk for prostate cancer depends on age, we refined analyses for a validated PRS for prostate cancer by using 64,274 prostate cancer cases and 46,432 controls of diverse ancestry (82.8% European, 9.8% African American, 3.8% Latino, 2.8% Asian, and 0.8% Ghanaian). Our strategy applied a novel weighted proportional hazards model to case-control data to fully utilize age to refine how the relative risk decreased with age. We found significantly greater relative risks for younger men (age 30-55 years) compared with older men (70-88 years) for both relative risk per standard deviation of the PRS and dichotomized according to the upper 90th percentile of the PRS distribution. For the largest European ancestral group that could provide reliable resolution, the log-relative risk decreased approximately linearly from age 50 to age 75. Despite strong evidence of age-dependent genetic relative risk, our results suggest that absolute risk predictions differed little from predictions that assumed a constant relative risk over ages, from short-term to long-term predictions, simplifying implementation of risk discussions into clinical practice.
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- Daniel J. Schaid
- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA,Corresponding author
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Moldovan A, Waldman YY, Brandes N, Linial M. Body Mass Index and Birth Weight Improve Polygenic Risk Score for Type 2 Diabetes. J Pers Med 2021; 11:582. [PMID: 34205563 PMCID: PMC8233887 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11060582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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One of the major challenges in the post-genomic era is elucidating the genetic basis of human diseases. In recent years, studies have shown that polygenic risk scores (PRS), based on aggregated information from millions of variants across the human genome, can estimate individual risk for common diseases. In practice, the current medical practice still predominantly relies on physiological and clinical indicators to assess personal disease risk. For example, caregivers mark individuals with high body mass index (BMI) as having an increased risk to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D). An important question is whether combining PRS with clinical metrics can increase the power of disease prediction in particular from early life. In this work we examined this question, focusing on T2D. We present here a sex-specific integrated approach that combines PRS with additional measurements and age to define a new risk score. We show that such approach combining adult BMI and PRS achieves considerably better prediction than each of the measures on unrelated Caucasians in the UK Biobank (UKB, n = 290,584). Likewise, integrating PRS with self-reports on birth weight (n = 172,239) and comparative body size at age ten (n = 287,203) also substantially enhance prediction as compared to each of its components. While the integration of PRS with BMI achieved better results as compared to the other measurements, the latter are early-life measurements that can be integrated already at childhood, to allow preemptive intervention for those at high risk to develop T2D. Our integrated approach can be easily generalized to other diseases, with the relevant early-life measurements.
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- Avigail Moldovan
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;
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- The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;
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