Caroline Vass, Cathy Anne Pinto, Kelley Myers, Kentaro Imai, Cooper Bussberg, Rituparna Bhattacharya, Shawna R Calhoun, Christine Poulos
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Abstract
Introduction: To quantify physicians' preferences for adjuvant renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treatments.
Materials and methods: A discrete-choice experiment was administered online to board-certified/eligible physicians. Physicians chose between pairs of hypothetical adjuvant therapies for a high-risk patient who had recently undergone a radical nephrectomy. Data were analyzed using random-parameters logit and latent-class models.
Results: Physicians (n = 250; 64% oncologists; 36% urologists) placed most importance on improvements in the chance of 5-year overall survival, followed by increased median disease-free survival and reduced risk of side effects. The analyses also highlighted their willingness to make tradeoffs between these benefits and risks. Physicians were generally tolerant of increases in the risks of treatment-related severe diarrhea, dizziness, and fatigue and were willing to accept increases in these risks in exchange for improvements in overall or disease-free survival. Subgroup analysis revealed heterogeneity between oncologists and urologists, and latent-class analysis revealed significant heterogeneity among the whole physician sample.
Conclusions: Most physicians in this study would recommend adjuvant therapy to a typical high-risk postnephrectomy RCC patient.
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Future Oncology (ISSN 1479-6694) provides a forum for a new era of cancer care. The journal focuses on the most important advances and highlights their relevance in the clinical setting. Furthermore, Future Oncology delivers essential information in concise, at-a-glance article formats - vital in delivering information to an increasingly time-constrained community.
The journal takes a forward-looking stance toward the scientific and clinical issues, together with the economic and policy issues that confront us in this new era of cancer care. The journal includes literature awareness such as the latest developments in radiotherapy and immunotherapy, concise commentary and analysis, and full review articles all of which provide key findings, translational to the clinical setting.