Direct medical cost of radiation therapy for cancer patients in TaiwanDirect Medical CostRadiotherapyCancer PatientBackground and purpose: The risingcost of health care is of concern worldwide,in particular, for cancer care. The costs of treatment, includingchemotherapeutic drugs and radiotherapy, are ...
Background: Economic analyses of cancer therapy often require estimates of the cost of radiation. A comprehensive cost analysis, done by Wodinsky et. al. at an Ontario regional cancer centre in 1984, found the average cost of a fraction of radiation to be $123. Inflated by the Consumer Pric...
Cost Comparison of Radiation Treatment Options After Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer Background Radiation therapy (RT) after lumpectomy for breast cancer can be delivered with several different regimens. We evaluated a cost-minimization strategy to select among RT options. RA Greenup,MS Camp,AG Taghian...
Integrating radiation therapy into the management of ovarian cancer Several studies during the last 15 years have elucidated the role of postoperative external beam radiation therapy as curative management of some subsets o... GM Thomas,AJ Dembo - 《Cancer》 被引量: 124发表: 1993年 Diagnostic and...
radiation in treatment of in-stent restenosis: The INHIBIT randomised controlled trial In-stent restenosis is a major limitation of intracoronary stenting. Ionising gamma radiation has been shown to reduce recurrence of restenosis after stent placement. We aimed to compare the effects of intracoronary ...
Cost-effectiveness studies in radiation therapy. The field of radiation therapy has made dramatic technical advances over the past 20 years. 3D conformal radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiation therap... Sher,J David - 《Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research》 被引量: 90发表: ...
Two-Year and Lifetime Cost-Effectiveness of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Versus 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy for Head-and-Neck Cancer. Background: The specific aim of this study is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) compared with three-dimens...
Lifetime cost-effectiveness analysis of intraoperative radiation therapy versus external beam radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer. Cost Eff Resour ... R Patel,O Ivanov,J Voigt - 《Cost Effectiveness & Resource Allocation C/e》 被引量: 1发表: 2017年 Cost-effectiveness of intraoperative...
One technique for APBI is Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT), which refers to the delivery of a single dose of radiation directly to the tumor bed at the time of surgery. In addition to the benefits of other APBI techniques, IORT eliminates the risk of patients not attending to ...
Critique of "the cost effectiveness of a radiation therapy simulator" by A. Dritschilo et al.: (Internal. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 5: 243–248, 1979) F T.,Sandemann - International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics 被引量: 0发表: 1980年 Critique of "The palliation ...