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Table 3 Per person costs of genomic sequencing by types of resources (AU$)

From: Estimating the costs of genomic sequencing in cancer control

Totals by types of costs

Lung cancer/melanoma

Breast cancer

Melanoma

Lung cancer

Oesophageal cancer

Mesothelioma

 

Panel

Panel

Exome

Exome

Genome

Genome

  - labour

$74.38

$42.83

$31.15

$427.60

$133.94

$809.01

  - consumablesa

$344.36

$189.04

$19.28

$1090.21

$84.19

$72.69

  - testingb

$6.12

$85.01

$782.91

$1204.79

$4369.30

$1771.16

  - equipmentc

$35.43

$36.88

$92.36

$197.25

$93.67

$111.36

  - otherd

$1.96

$27.01

$37.29

$64.22

$242.43

$242.43

Total

AU$462.25

(US$320)

AU$380.77

(US$264)

AU$963.00

(US$667)

AU$2984.07

(US$2068)

AU$4923.53

(US$3412)

AU$3006.65

(US$2084)

% of total by types of costs

  - labour

16.1%

11.2%

3.2%

14.3%

2.7%

26.9%

  - consumables

74.5%

49.6%

2.0%

36.5%

1.7%

2.4%

  - testing

1.3%

22.3%

81.3%

40.4%

88.7%

58.9%

  - equipment

7.7%

9.7%

9.6%

6.6%

1.9%

3.7%

  - other

0.4%

7.1%

3.9%

2.2%

4.9%

8.1%

Total %

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

  1. aConsumables for Melanoma, Oesophageal cancers & Mesothelioma are included in ‘testing’ as these were outsourced to commercial services and could not be separately identified
  2. bTesting includes validation, pre-sequencing testing and outsourced sequencing
  3. cEquipment includes maintenance costs
  4. dOther includes sampling, data storage, software, multidisciplinary team meetin