Attribute Category | Attribute |
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Primary Purpose | Screening evaluation,
Epidemiological analysis,
Policy evaluation,
Population trends (The model can shed light on trends due to e.g. vaccination, screening, changes in sexual behaviour or other demographic changes that may be observed through surveillance data.),
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Features | |
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Intervention | Prevention (We mainly simulate prevention through cervical screening and vaccination),
Screening,
Treatment,
Vaccination,
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Natural History | Metastases (We model cancer progresion to more advanced stages for cancers that have not yet been detected (and therefore not yet treated), including metastases, which is modelled by incorporating poorer survival for later stages of disease detection.),
Precancer,
Dysplasia (We explicitly model the precancer states HPV infected (without cell changes), CIN1, CIN2 and CIN3. We also model different underlying HPV types that cause these precancer states.),
Virus (We explicitly model infection, precancer and cancer states separately for four HPV type groups: 1) HPV 16, 2) HPV 18, 3) other high-risk types included in the nonavalent vaccine (HPV 31/33/45/52/58); and 4) other high-risk types not included in the nonavalent vaccine (all other oncogenic HPV types).),
Other (Our model assumes that "precancer" (defined as CIN3) is exclusively caused by HPV although CIN3 misclassification by particular tests is accounted for.),
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Construction | |
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Approach | Micro Simulation,
Macro Simulation,
Dynamic Transmission (Our model of HPV transmission and vaccination is a dynamic transmission model. This allows us to take into account herd immunity.),
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Methods | Longitudinal (The chance of events occurring depends on the woman's history),
Stochastic process,
State Transition,
Time to Event (We use time to event to simulate transitions between states.),
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Unit of Analysis | Person,
Population (We can extrapolate our person-level to the population level),
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Data Source | |
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Census | |
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Cancer Registry | NSW-CCR (National registry data is used for cancer incidence and mortality. The stage-specific and interval specific cancer survival parameters used in the Australian model are based on analysis of data obtained from NSW Central Cancer Registry),
ACD (Age-specific incidence data is a model target, and is based on data from the Australian Cancer Database),
NMD (Age-specific mortality rates for cervical cancer are a model target, and are based on data from the National Mortality Database),
VCCR (Age-specific screening behaviour is based on data from the Victorian Cervical Cytology Register),
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Linked | |
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Clinical Trial | Other (We are performing ongoing validation against Compass data, a large scale trial of screening in a vaccinated population - www.compasstrial.org.au),
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Survey | ASHR (Our model was originally developed for use in Australia, and therefore incorporates Australian survey data on sexual behaviour (ASHR data).),
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Meta Analysis | Other (Test characteristics for HPV test and liquid-based cytology, and adverse pregnancy-related outcomes after precancer treatment are based on meta-analyses. Local data are also used for calibration and validation of test characteristics (e.g. rates for abnormal cytology tests).),
Observational Studies (Observational studies are used in the absence of other study types (e.g. meta-analyses). For example, HPV prevalence data in some settings is based on observational studies.),
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Assumptions | |
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Benefit Factors | |
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Screening | Stage Shift (For Australia we simulate three stages - localised, regional or distant cancer stages. Once cancer is detected, survival depends upon the stage at which the cancer was detected, and also (within stage) on whether cancer was screen-detected or symptomatically detected.),
Cure Rate (We assume that screen detected cancers have a marginally higher survival rates than cancers detected via symptomatic presentation.),
Modality (Benefit shifts for HPV vs cytology based screening because we can capture HPV type-specific test characteristics in the model),
Prevention (We capture both prevention and downstaging effects of screening),
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Treatment | Temporal Trends (We have the capacty to incorporate differential survival by period),
Modality (Survival of cancer after a cancer diagnosis is based on the stage at diagnosis and can also be setting-specific. We assume different survival in different regions, taking into account resources available in each setting.),
Precancer (Women who are treated for a precancerous lesion will have the offending lesion removed. We capture treatmetn success rates and fully model downstream surveillance and re-treatments in this group.),
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Vaccination | Prevention (We have a dynamic transmission model which simulates vaccination and sexual behaviour that is setting-specific and can be modified to incorporate different sexual behaviour data based on the setting. This model can capture the effects of herd immunity.),
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Inputs | Disease (The time spent in the different stages of precancer and cancer are age-specific inputs.),
Grade Distribution (The time spent in the different stages of precancer are age-specific inputs.),
Stage Distribution (The time spent in the different stages cancer are age-specific inputs.),
Other Conditions (Hysterectomies),
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Screening | Attendance (We use detailed data on screening and follow-up attendance by age which is fully captured.),
Dissemination,
Test Performance,
Effect,
Risk Adaptive Factors,
Incidental Finding Surveillance,
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Diagnosis | |
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Precancer | Attendance,
Test Performance,
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Treatment | Dissemination (The model has the capability to have varying success on treatment procedures based on geographic region, which is modelled by applying different survival by stage based on the region being simulated.),
Efficacy (The model has the capability to incorporating varying degrees of success in treatment procedures due to emerging technologies or other situations where treatment success/failure may vary),
Effect,
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Precancer | Attendance (We model compliance with referral to colposcopy, unstaisfacoy colpsocopy, the non-taking of biopsy in a large proportion of satisfactory colposcopies, and the potential for women to "delay" their treatment for fertility reasons),
Efficacy (We have an input parameter that captures the chance that a treatment was unsuccessful. Surveillance and re-treatment is explicitly modelled.),
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Survival | Observed (Depending on the data available and the region we are simulating, cancer survival may be input as an 'observed' or 'relative' input parameter set.),
Relative,
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Mortality | Other cause,
Disease-specific,
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Risk Factor | Age,
Personal History (The individual's screening history and sexual behaviours will influence their risk of developing cervical cancer.),
Sexual behavior,
Demography (Demographic inputs that will affect the risk of cervical cancer in a woman's lifetime include hysterectomy due to reasons other than cervical cancer.),
Natural History,
Cost,
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Vaccination | Quadrivalent,
Bivalent,
Nonavalent,
Efficacy,
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Outputs | Cost,
Incidence,
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Disease | Stage Distribution,
Grade Distribution,
HPV Infection,
Other Conditions (Other outputs include costs associated with screening, precancer treatment and cancer cases. We also output resource utilisation (such as number of colposcopies and precancer treatments). We also output adverse pregnancy outcomes due to precancer treatments.),
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Prevalence | Disease,
Other Conditions (type-specific HPV infection and well as the prevalence of CIN1, CIN2 or CIN3),
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Treatment | Effect (Using our add-on model of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women treated for cervical precancer),
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Precancer | Effect (We output the number of precancer treatments by age of woman. We also have an additional model that captures adverse pregnancy-related events due to precancer treatments (e.g increased risk of low birth weight)),
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Screening | Effect,
Test Performance (Our model outputs call-rates such as the number of abnormal test results by age),
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Risk Factor | Demography,
Natural History (An individual's history of disease can be an output. For instance, we can output each instance an individual had an HPV infection, or each time that infection cleared.),
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Outcomes | Survival,
Life years,
QALY,
Cause-specific Mortality,
All-cause Mortality,
Temporal trends (Cohort specific outputs can be obtained, which would capture temporal trends e.g. due to vaccination, changes in screening, changes in sexual behaviour or changes in hysterectomy rates over time.),
Vaccination effect (We model detailed vaccination parameters, e.g. age-and cohorts-specific coverage rates, vaccine type, efficacy against vaccine-included and non-vaccine included types and duration of protection.),
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Screening | False Positives (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
True Positives (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
False Negatives (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
True Negatives (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
Biopsies performed (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
Unnecessary biopsies (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
Overdiagnoses (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
History (Not routinely extracted, but the model has the capacity to extract these outputs.),
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Treatment | History (Our model outputs a woman's history of Cone or LEEP procedures separately.),
Overtreatment (Our model outputs treatments that may occur in women with CIN1.),
Pregnancy (We have an add-on model which simulated fertility outcomes based on a woman's history of treatment for CIN2/3),
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Implementation | |
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Development | |
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Tested Platforms | Windows,
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Language | C or C++,
C#,
Python,
Visual Basic,
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