Table 5.
Risk-based screening outcomes | Screening based on | Screens, No. | LYG | BC deaths averted | Over diagnoses | False positives | LYG/screens | LYG/overdiagnoses/ | BC deaths averted/false positives |
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Main analyses | |||||||||
Risk based | FH (strategies in Table 3) | 11 840 | 125 | 6.9 | 14.9 | 1000 | 0.0105 | 8.35 | 0.0069 |
Risk based | Polygenic risk (strategies in Table 4) | 12 990 | 141 | 7.4 | 16.0 | 1156 | 0.0109 | 8.85 | 0.0064 |
Risk based | FH and polygenic riska | 13 089 | 154 | 7.9 | 16.6 | 1169 | 0.0117 | 9.23 | 0.0067 |
Sensitivity analysis | |||||||||
Risk based (constrained)b | Polygenic risk (strategies in Table 6) | 10 856 | 135 | 7.1 | 14.0 | 946 | 0.0124 | 9.64 | 0.0075 |
Results per 1000 women screened. The screening strategies and associated harms and benefits are listed in Supplementary Table 6 (available online). BC = breast cancer; FH = family history; LYG = life-years gained; PRS = polygenic risk score.
The constrained risk-based screening approach represents a scenario where the number of screens of the United States Preventive Services Task Force screening guidelines (top row) was not increased but rather was redistributed across the population based on the PRSs (strategies given in Table 6). The number of screens do not exactly match because all women in each risk group were assigned to one of the screening strategies listed in the Methods section.