Potential cost-savings of breastfeeding promotion to prevent breast cancer: a Monte Carlo simulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breastfeeding protects mothers against breast cancer. Our study aimed to estimate the healthcare cost-savings resulting from a reduction in breast cancer attributed to an increase in the breastfeeding rate in Hong Kong.

Methods

This is an economic evaluation. We constructed an individual-based Monte Carlo method to simulate with probabilistic sensitivity analysis the development of breast cancer over a woman's lifetime in a hypothetical birth cohort aged 20 years in 2018 (n = 33500) using best available data mainly from government statistics. We predicted the cases of, and deaths due to breast cancer in the base case (with the actual breastfeeding rate in 2018) and two hypothetical optimal scenarios (90% exclusive breastfeeding for six months or cumulative exclusi

SUBMITTER: Hui LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11852815 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature