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ReviewCost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E2018

Personalized medicine in colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment: a systematic review of health economic evaluations.

Annamaria Guglielmo, Nicoletta Staropoli, Monica Giancotti, Marianna Mauro

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Review in Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Annamaria GuglielmoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, "Magna Græcia" University, Viale Europa 88100, Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9748-3974
Nicoletta StaropoliDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, "Magna Græcia" University, Viale Europa 88100, Catanzaro, Italy.
Monica GiancottiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, "Magna Græcia" University, Viale Europa 88100, Catanzaro, Italy.
Marianna MauroDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, "Magna Græcia" University, Viale Europa 88100, Catanzaro, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDue to its epidemiological relevance, several studies have been performed to assess the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic tests and treatments in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.

objectiveWe reviewed economic evaluations on diagnosis of inherited CRC-syndromes and genetic tests for the detection of mutations associated with response to therapeutics.

methodsA systematic literature review was performed by searching the main literature databases for relevant papers on the field, published in the last 5 years.

results20 studies were included in the final analysis: 14 investigating the cost-effectiveness of hereditary-CRC screening; 5 evaluating the cost-effectiveness of KRAS mutation assessment before treatment; and 1 study analysing the cost-effectiveness of genetic tests for early-stage CRC patients prognosis. Overall, we found that: (a) screening strategies among CRC patients were more effective than no screening; (b) all the evaluated interventions were cost-saving for certain willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold; and (c) all new CRC patients diagnosed at age 70 or below should be screened. Regarding patients treatment, we found that KRAS testing is economically sustainable only if anticipated in patients with non-metastatic CRC (mCRC), while becoming unsustainable, due to an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) beyond the levels of WTP-threshold, in all others evaluated scenarios.

conclusionsThe poor evidence in the field, combined to the number of assumptions done to perform the models, lead us to a high level of uncertainty on the cost-effectiveness of genetic evaluations in CRC, suggesting that major research is required in order to assess the best combination among detection tests, type of genetic test screening and targeted-therapy.

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Colorectal cancerCost-effectiveness analysisCRCEconomic evaluationPersonalized medicine

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PMID29386984
PMCPMC5778687

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