Cost-effectiveness of modern radiotherapy techniques in locally advanced pancreatic cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1119-1129

  Murphy, James D ^a   Chang, Daniel T ^a   Abelson, Jon ^a   Daly, Megan E ^a   Yeung, Heidi N ^b   Nelson, Lorene M ^b   Koong, Albert C ^a  

^a STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

combined modality therapy; cost benefit analysis; pancreatic neoplasms; stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

GEMCITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISTANT FAILURE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RADIATION INJURY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MONOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEOXYCYTIDINE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856792338     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26365     Document Type: Article

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