Who Should Bear the Cost of Convenience? A Cost-effectiveness Analysis Comparing External Beam and Brachytherapy Radiotherapy Techniques for Early Stage Breast Cancer

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• 作者：M. McGuffin^&lowast ; ; ^{Merrylee.Mcguffin@sunnybrook.ca} ; T. Merino^&dagger ; ; B. Keller^&Dagger ; ; J.-P. Pignol^&dagger ;
• 关键词：Adjuvant radiotherapy ; brachytherapy ; cost-effectiveness ; partial breast irradiation
• 刊名：Clinical Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：29
• 期：3
• 页码：e57-e63
• 全文大小：568 K
• 卷排序：29

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A cost-effectiveness analysis of whole and partial breast radiotherapy techniques. Activity-based costing used to derive treatment costs from a societal perspective. High cost of brachytherapy partial breast techniques due to staffing expenditures. Whole breast irradiation is cost-effective but has highest cost to the patient. Societal perspective should be considered when adopting new technologies.