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Background. Long-term outcomes of screening programs are challenging to evaluate in randomized clinical trials. The role of predictive modeling is becoming increasingly popular in oncology. Modeling the interventions consequences in oncology is based, among other things, on the use of toolkits, denoted by the term «mathematical oncology» Aim. To study approaches to modeling screening scenarios for breast cancer, aimed at developing tools to support medical decision-making in the healthcare syste...

Background (relevance, subject and purpose of the work): Specialized cancer care questionnaires developed for specific types of malignant neoplasms and antitumor treatments facilitate the collection of the results of patients’ self-assessment of various health related issues, including therapy outcomes. Electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures (ePROMs) are nowadays considered as powerful tools for enforcing the introduction of remote monitoring to control acute and late radia...