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Cost of a 5-Year Lung Cancer Survivor: Symptomatic Tumour Identification vs Proactive Computed Tomography Screening
Cost Effectiveness of CT Screening in Lung Cancer
AW Castleberry, D Smith, C Anderson, AJ Rotter, FW Grannis Jr
20090815
2009 Sept 15
Br J Cancer
Cost of a 5-Year Lung Cancer Survivor: Symptomatic Tumour Identification vs Proactive Computed Tomography Screening
Br J Cancer. 2009 Sept 15;101(6):882-896, AW Castleberry, D Smith, C Anderson, AJ Rotter, FW Grannis Jr
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Background: Our objective was to analyse the cost effectiveness of computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer in terms of the cost per long-term survivor, which has not been evaluated to date. Methods: Estimations were computed based on data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registries covering years 1999–2003. The design framework of our model allowed for the incorporation of multiple values taken from the epidemiological and clinical literature to be utilised for cost...
