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Cost-effectiveness of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in a European country with high prevalence of smoking-A modelling study
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
ID
4487601
Author(s)
Tomonaga, Yuki; Ten Haaf, Kevin; Frauenfelder, Thomas; Kohler, Malcolm; Kouyos, Roger D.; Shilaih, Mohaned; Lorez, Matthias; de Koning, Harry J.; Schwenkglenks, Matthias; Puhan, Milo A.
Cost-effectiveness of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in a European country with high prevalence of smoking-A modelling study
Journal
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Volume
121
Pages / Article-Number
61-69
Mesh terms
Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cigarette Smoking, epidemiology; Cost of Illness; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Early Detection of Cancer, economics; Female; Humans; Lung Neoplasms, mortality; Male; Middle Aged; Models, Economic; Population Groups; Prevalence; Quality-Adjusted Life Years; Switzerland, epidemiology; Tomography, X-Ray Computed, economics
Abstract
In Europe, there is uncertainty about the potential effects and cost-effectiveness of low dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer and about the applicability of results of North American studies. We aimed to estimate the effects and cost-effectiveness of lung cancer screening in a population-based setting in Switzerland where the smoking prevalence is high.; The MIcrosimulation Screening ANalysis-Lung (MISCAN) model was adapted using country specific input parameters regarding lung cancer epidemiology, smoking behaviours, and treatment costs. The effects and costs of 648 screening scenarios with different screening start and stop ages, smoking eligibility criteria, and screening intervals were examined from a public healthcare system perspective across a lifetime horizon in a cohort born between 1935 and 1965.; All screening scenarios showed an increase in the total number of detected lung cancer cases and a decrease in lung cancer mortality. On the efficiency frontier, 15 of 27 scenarios showed incremental cost-effectiveness ratios below Euro 50,000 per life year gained. These scenarios reduced lung cancer mortality by 6-15% while increasing incidence of lung cancer diagnoses by 2-6%.; These results suggest that lung cancer screening may be cost-effective in Switzerland, a high-income, European country with high smoking prevalence.
