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. 2002 Oct 19;325(7369):891–894. doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7369.891

Table 2.

Incremental cases detected and incremental (and marginal) costs ($) of screening with six sequential tests

No of tests
Total cases detected
Total costs
Average costs
1 65.0465 77 511      1 175
2 5.4956 30 179      5 492
3 0.4580 22 509     49 150
4 0.0382 17 917    469 534
5 0.0032 15 024  4 724 695
6 0.0003 13 190 47 107 214