A protocol for development of a microsimulation model platform to evaluate the potential benefits, harms, and cost-effectiveness of risk-tailored melanoma screening

• Kirstie G. McLoughlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Caroline G. Watts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Stephen Wade,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Amelia K. Smit,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• H. Peter Soyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Dermatology Research Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Dermatology Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Pablo Fernandez-Peñas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Westmead Clinical School, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Dermatology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4882-1564

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• David C. Whiteman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Population Health and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

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• Pascale Guitera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales, Australia,

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• Gillian Reyes-Marcelino,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3250-0961

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• Karen Canfell,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliations The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Anne E. Cust ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anne.cust@sydney.edu.au

  ¶‡ AEC and MC are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-6370

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• Michael Caruana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AEC and MC are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, and Cancer Council New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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