A cost-effectiveness analysis of front-line treatment strategies in early-stage follicular lymphoma
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Crothers, Anna
Ma, Ti Eric
Mollee, Peter
Gandhi, Maher K
Scuffham, Paul
Hapgood, Greg
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Recent data suggest the use of radiotherapy alone (RT) in Early-Stage Follicular Lymphoma is declining. Cost-effectiveness analysis of treatments has not been performed. We constructed a partitioning model (15-year horizon) to compare RT, combined-modality therapy (CMT) and immunochemotherapy with rituximab maintenance (ICT + RM) from a PET-staged cohort from the Australian Lymphoma Alliance. Lifetime direct health care costs, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) were calculated. AUD $75,000 was defined as the willingness-to-pay threshold (WTP). The direct healthcare costs were: RT $12,791, CMT $29,391 and ICT + RM $42,644. Compared with RT, CMT demonstrated minimal improvement in QALYs (+0.01) and an ICER well above the WTP threshold ($1,535,488). Compared with RT, ICT + RM demonstrated an improvement in QALYs (+0.41) with an ICER of $73,319. Modeling a 25% cost reduction with a rituximab biosimilar led to further ICER reductions with ICT + RM ($52,476). ICT + RM is cost-effective in early-stage FL from the Australian taxpayer perspective.
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Leukemia & Lymphoma
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62
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14
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Tobin, JWD; Crothers, A; Ma, TE; Mollee, P; Gandhi, MK; Scuffham, P; Hapgood, G, A cost-effectiveness analysis of front-line treatment strategies in early-stage follicular lymphoma, Leukemia & Lymphoma, 2021, 62 (14), pp. 3484-3492