Cost effectiveness of gene expression profiling for early stage breast cancer: A decision-analytic model

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 5163-5170

  Yang, Mo ^a,b   Rajan, Suja ^a,b   Issa, Amalia M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cost effectiveness; gene expression profiling; health economics; Markov modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEALTH CARE COST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867334350     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27443     Document Type: Article

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