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. 2019 Aug 2;10:830. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00830

Table 1.

Cost and number of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) of “dominant” individualized interventions.

Disease Gene Cost of intervention Number of QALYS Reference++
W/o PGx test/test 1 With PGx test/test 2 W/o PGx test/test 1 With PGx test/test 2
Advanced adenocarcinoma
of the lung
EGFR SG$47,100 SG$44,700 0.87 0.91 (Lee et al., 2014)
Colorectal cancer KRAS ¥3,160,000($35,000) ¥2,600,000 ($29,000) 0.48 0.49 (Sun et al., 2013)
UGT1A1 $13,058 $12,786 1.6347 1.6349 (54)
Acute coronary syndrome CYP2C19 $15,800 $14,900 0.966 0.9665 (Jonsson, 2009)
NZ$85,342 NZ$84,646 8.544 8.650 (Hess et al., 2015)
$76,906* (CLO) $76,450 7.4381 7.5301 (47)
$78,296 (P2Y12)
Neonatal diabetes KCNJ11, ABCC8 $71,784 $59,256 16.29 16.99 (Song and Chung, 2011)
Atrial fibrillation 4q25 Cost saving of $250,689 Net gain of 8.8 (Riewpaiboon, 2014)
Familial adenomatous polyposis APC €13,928.82 (Spain) €8,038.93 19.92 19.93 (65)
Neovascular macular degeneration CFH, ARMS2/HTRA1, C3, C2, CFB Cost saving of $493 Gain of 0.0392 (78)
Venous thromboembolism Thrombo inCode® €1,366.30–€2,795.61 (Spain) €832.58–€848.38 8.2586–8.4784 8.5871–8.5874 (61)
Breast cancer MammaPrint® €17,869+ (Spain) €16,989 18.131 18.357 (Snyder et al., 2014)
$27,882+ $21,598 7.364 7.461 (53)

*Currency used is different from the currency of the country in which the corresponding economic evaluation study was carried out. Researchers chose to express costs in US $ ($). +Cost of individualized intervention including Oncotype DX®. PRA, prasugrel; CLO, clopidogrel; P2Y12, other P2Y12 inhibitor (individualized interventions including prasugrel, clopidogrel and other P2Y12 inhibitors, respectively). ++Identification number of the article ( Supplementary Table 1 ).