Cost comparison of radiation treatment options after lumpectomy for breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3275-3281

  Greenup, Rachel A ^a   Camp, Melissa S ^a   Taghian, Alphonse G ^a   Buckley, Julliette ^a   Coopey, Suzanne B ^a   Gadd, Michele ^a   Hughes, Kevin ^a   Specht, Michelle ^a   Smith, Barbara L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84868193076     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2546-5     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Arriagada R, Le MG, Rochard F, Contesso G, for the Institut Gustave-Roussy Breast Cancer Group. Conservative treatment versus mastectomy in early breast cancer: patterns of failure with 15 years of follow-up data. J Clin Oncol. 1996;14 (5):1558-64. (Pubitemid 26134214)
2. Veronesi U, Cascinellu N, Mariani L, Greco M, Saccozzi R, Luini A, et al. Twenty-year follow-up of a randomized study comparing breast-conserving surgery with radical mastectomy for early breast cancer. NEJM. 2002;347 (16): 1227-32. (Pubitemid 35176241)
3. Fisher B, Anderson S, Bryant J, Margolese RG, Deutsch M, Fisher ER, et al. Twenty-year follow-up of a randomized trial comparing total mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lumpectomy plus irradiation for the treatment of invasive breast cancer. NEJM. 2002;347(16):1233-41. (Pubitemid 35176242)
4. Margenthaler, JA. Optimizing conservative breast surgery. J Surg Oncol. 2011;103:306-12.
5. Whelan T, MacKenzie R, Julian J, Levine M, Shelley W, Grimard L, et al. Randomized trial of breast irradiation schedules after lumpectomy for women with lymph node-negative breast cancer. JNCI. 2002;94(15):1143-50. (Pubitemid 34919051)
6. Whelan T, Pignol J-P, Levine MN, Julian JA, MacKenzie R, Parpia S, et al. Long-term results of hypofractionated radiation therapy for breast cancer. NEJM. 2010;362(6):513-20.
7. Smith, BD, Arthur, DW, Bucholz, TA, et al. Accelerated partial breast irradiation consensus statement from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009;74 (4):987-1001.
8. Beitsch PD, Shaitelman SF, Vicini FA. Accelerated partial breast irradiation. J Surg Oncol. 2011;103:362-8.
9. Hughes K, Schnaper LA, Berry D, et al. Lumpectomy plus tamoxifen with or without irradiation in women 70 years of age or older with early breast cancer. NEJM. 2004;351:971-7. (Pubitemid 39166260)
10. Hughes KS, Schnaper LA, Cirrincione C, et al. Lumpectomy plus tamoxifen with or without irradiation in women age 70 or older with early breast cancer. 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting. Abstract 507. June 2010.
11. Kozak KR, Katz A, Adams J, et al. Dosimetric comparison of proton and photon three-dimensional conformal, external beam accelerated partial breast irradiation techniques. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006;65:1572-8. (Pubitemid 44425227)
12. Suh W, Pierce LJ, Vicini FA, Hayman JA. A cost comparison analysis of partial versus whole-breast irradiation after breastconserving surgery for early-stage breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005;62 (3):790-6. (Pubitemid 40779770)
13. Sher DJ, Wittenberg E, Suh W, Taghian AG, Punglia RS. Partialbreast irradiation versus whole breast irradiation for early-stage breast cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Bio Phys. 2009;74(2): 440-6.
14. Dwyer P, Hickey B, Burmeister E, Burmeister B. Hypofractionated whole-breast radiotherapy: impact on departmental waiting times and cost. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2010;54:229-34.
15. Mariotto AB, Yabroff KR, Shao Y, Feuer EJ, Brown ML. Projections of the cost of cancer care in the United States: 2010-2020. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2011;103(2):117-28.
16. Smith BD, Bentzen SM, Correa CR, Hahn CA, Hardenbergh PH, Ibbott GS, et al. Fractionation for whole breast irradiation: an American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) evidencebased guideline. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Jul 15.
17. Taghian AG. Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center protocol 03-179; registry number NCT00694577, clinicaltrials.gov.
18. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Physician fee schedule search. www.cms.gov/apps/physician- fee-schedule/search.
19. Chen PY, Wallace M, Mitchell C, et al. Four-year efficacy, cosmesis, and toxicity using three-dimensional conformal external beam radiation therapy to deliver accelerated partial breast irradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010;76:91-7.
20. Vicini FA, Remouchamps V, Wallace M. Ongoing clinical experience utilizing 3D conformal external beam radiotherapy to deliver partial-breast irradiation in patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast-conserving therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2003;57:1247-53. (Pubitemid 37443961)
21. Phase III Randomized Study of Adjuvant Whole-Breast Versus Partial-Breast Irradiation in Women With Ductal Carcinoma In Situ or Stage I or II Breast Cancer. http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials
22. Fisher B, Dignam J, Wolmark N, et al. Lumpectomy and radiation therapy for the treatment of intraductal breast cancer: findings from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-17. J Clin Oncol. 1998;16:441-52. (Pubitemid 28135585)
23. Wong JS, Kaelin CM, Troyan SL, Gadd MA, Gelman R, Lester SC, et al. Prospective study of wide excision alone for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. J Clin Oncol. 2006;24(7):1031-6. (Pubitemid 46638798)
24. Bijker N, Meijnen P, Peterse JL, Bogaerts J, Van Hoorebeeck I, Julien JP, et al. Breast-conserving treatment with or without radiotherapy in ductal carcinoma-in situ: ten-year results of European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Randomized Phase III Trial 10853-A study by the EORTC Breast Cancer Cooperative Group. J Clin Oncol. 2006;24(21): 3381-7. (Pubitemid 46638893)
25. Houghton J, George WD, Cuzick J, et al. Radiotherapy and tamoxifen in women with completely excised ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in the UK, Australia and New Zealand: randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2003;362:95-102. (Pubitemid 36831018)
26. Hughes LL, Wang M, Page DL, Gray R, Solin LJ, Davidson NE, et al. Local excision alone without irradiation for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: a trial of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27:5319-24.
27. National Cancer Institute: Surveillance epidemiology and end results. http://seer.cancer.gov/csr.2011.
28. Coopey SB, Buckley JM, Smith BL, Hughes KS, Gadd MA, Specht MC. Lumpectomy cavity shaved margins do not impact re-excision rates in breast cancer patients. Ann Surg Oncol. 2011;18:3036-40.