Cancer Risk Management Model

www.cancerriskmgmt.ca

Training will be delivered on the recently launched Cancer Risk Management Platform, a comprehensive, web-based, decision-support modeling tool that projects population-based health and macroeconomic impacts of cancer control programs. These training sessions will be geared towards the analyst/end user such as policy analysts, planners, health economists, biostatisticians, and epidemiologists.

Registration is now open for the Cancer Risk Management Model Training Workshops. Funding for this training workshop will be supported by this initiative. To register for the Vancouver training
workshop on Thursday, March 4th, 2010, please click here. To
register for the Toronto training workshop on Wednesday, March
24th, 2010, please click here. For more information, please email
riskmgmt@cancerview.ca or call (416) 915-9222 x 5811.

Projecting the impact of cancer control interventions

What would be the impact on lung cancer incidence rates, treatment and economic costs in Canada if the rate of smoking for every province was equivalent to the province with the lowest rate? What would be the impact if Canada achieved the very low smoking rates of a jurisdiction such as California?

How would the incidence rate, stage distribution and costs for colorectal cancer change if screening was adopted and achieved utilization rates of 70% in all provinces? Does the cost-effectiveness depend on the age range screened? What would be the overall impact on employment rates, aggregate wages, aggregate health care and pension costs, and income tax?

The Cancer Risk Management Model was developed to answer these questions, and many others.

The Cancer Risk Management Model is a computer microsimulation model designed to make projections of the population health and economic impacts of cancer control programs in Canada. It draws on a broad range of the latest evidence regarding the incidence, progression, and case fatality of cancers in Canada, the impacts of major risk factors, the effects and effectiveness of cancer prevention and screening, and cancer treatments on population health and costs to the health care system.

A modeling tool for policy makers

The Cancer Risk Management Model is designed to support direct and easy use by cancer control and other health and policy leaders and decision makers in Canada. But it also has the transparency and flexibility needed for use by advanced cancer modelers. Please click here for modes of use.

Cancer Models

The Cancer Risk Management Model currently incorporates two cancer sites, lung and colorectal, chosen because together they are the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in Canada for both men and women. Three categories of cancer control strategies: risk factor mitigation, screening, and treatment are examined. Future versions of the Cancer Risk Management Model will include other cancer sites, such as breast, cervical, and prostate.

In both cancer site components, users can modify treatment algorithm pathways, durations, preference scores, as well as any of the aggregated health care expenditures associated with treatment and on-going care of cancer patients. Health care expenditures include: the average costs of diagnostics, staging, surgery, hospital, radiotherapy, chemotherapy first and second line treatments, tests, monthly on-going follow-up costs, and terminal care costs associated with hospitalization, medical services in and out of hospital, and palliative radiotherapy. Costs and life-years can be discounted based on a user-supplied parameter. Parameter value can differ by province.

Illustrative Example:

What is the Impact of adopting the FOBT vs. FIT screening test?

Want to learn more?

Website: www.cancerriskmgmt.ca
Contact us: riskmgmt@cancerview.ca