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. 2020 Aug 27;113(4):434–442. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa127

Table 5.

Model average benefits, harms, and benefit to harm ratios comparison of risk-based screening based on BC FH, PRS, and FH combined with polygenic risk for both the primary analysis and the sensitivity analysis

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
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
a

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.

b

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.