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Abstract
Purpose: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with operable stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is less invasive than surgery. However, differences in lifetime costs and patient outcomes remain unclear. In this study, a cost-utility analysis of SBRT compared with surgery for Japanese patients with operable stage I NSCLC was conducted.
Methods and materials: A partitioned survival model was constructed using each treatment arm's overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) data. The data for the SBRT arm were extracted from the Japanese multicenter cohort study, which enrolled 678 medically operable patients with stage I NSCLC, and patient registry data were used for the surgery arm. The 5-year OS rate was 78.2% for SBRT and 74.8% for surgery from both studies. The 5-year PFS rate was 57.0% for SBRT and 63.4% for surgery. The quality of life values of PFS and progressive disease were obtained from domestic and overseas literature (PFS: 0.74, progressive disease: 0.65). The time horizon was set to 10 years. The expected costs and quality-adjusted life years for each treatment group were calculated. All costs are expressed in Japanese yen converted to US dollars (USD).
Results: SBRT was the dominant strategy, reducing treatment costs by 4,443.8 USD and increasing quality-adjusted life years by 0.131 compared with surgery. According to probabilistic sensitivity analysis, the probability of SBRT being dominant and cost-effective was 50.6% and 72.4%, respectively. Under the budget impact analysis, the total savings for the patients with stage I NSCLC in Japan was 6,252,870.0 USD (n = 1,407).
Conclusions: SBRT is a more cost-effective option than surgery in patients with medically operable stage I NSCLC in Japan. Large-scale epidemiologic studies that reflect the latest clinical realities, such as OS/PFS, will be needed to validate this study's robustness.
期刊介绍:
International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (IJROBP), known in the field as the Red Journal, publishes original laboratory and clinical investigations related to radiation oncology, radiation biology, medical physics, and both education and health policy as it relates to the field.
This journal has a particular interest in original contributions of the following types: prospective clinical trials, outcomes research, and large database interrogation. In addition, it seeks reports of high-impact innovations in single or combined modality treatment, tumor sensitization, normal tissue protection (including both precision avoidance and pharmacologic means), brachytherapy, particle irradiation, and cancer imaging. Technical advances related to dosimetry and conformal radiation treatment planning are of interest, as are basic science studies investigating tumor physiology and the molecular biology underlying cancer and normal tissue radiation response.