Costs of early adjuvant radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy: A decision analysis
Posted on Thu, Jun 30, 2011
Costs of early adjuvant radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy: A decision analysis
Annals of Oncology, 06/30/2011 Clinical Article
Showalter TN et al. – ART appears cost effective compared with observation based upon this decision analysis model. Future research should consider more costly radiation therapy (RT) approaches, such as intensity-modulated RT, and should evaluate the cost-effectiveness of ART versus early salvage RT.
Methods
- Decision analysis model designed to compare ART versus observation over 10-year time horizon
- Probabilities of treatment success, utilization of salvage treatments, and rates of adverse events were taken from published results of SWOG 8794
- Cost inputs were based on 2010 Medicare reimbursement rates
- Primary outcome measure was incremental cost per prostate-specific antigen (PSA) success (i.e. serum PSA level <0.4 ng/ml)
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