The model is described in detail in Birnbaum et al 2015 (Annals of Internal Medicine). In brief, it is a state-transition microsimulation model that projects breast cancer mortality outcomes for a cohort of women. Users can specify early detection and treatment interventions and compare the resulting outcomes to those under a given standard of care.
To accommodate users of various backgrounds, we provide three levels of access. Click on the headings below to choose a level:
Customize the model for your location and intervention. No programming required. For users who can obtain breast cancer stage and survival statistics from the literature or registries.
COMING SOON Answer a series of questions to roughly customize our model for your location and intervention. No programming required. For users who do not have statistics on breast cancer stage and survival.
For finer control, use our R package bcimodel to run your own analyses in the R programming language. For users with programming experience.