Cost-effectiveness analysis of trastuzumab monotherapy versus adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab in elderly patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer.
adjuvant chemotherapy
aged
breast cancer
cost analysis
trastuzumab
Journal
Japanese journal of clinical oncology
ISSN: 1465-3621
Titre abrégé: Jpn J Clin Oncol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0313225
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
01
11
2021
accepted:
16
06
2022
pubmed:
2
7
2022
medline:
12
10
2022
entrez:
1
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy was associated with decreased quality of life, with relatively small benefits for prognosis. We examined the cost-effectiveness of trastuzumab monotherapy versus adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab in elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer. A Markov model was developed to evaluate the costs and benefits of trastuzumab monotherapy over adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab for elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer. We built the model with a yearly cycle over a 20-year time horizon and five health states: disease-free, relapse, post-relapse, metastasis and death. The parameters in the model were based on a previous randomized controlled trial and a nationwide administrative database in Japan. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, expressed as Japanese yen per the quality-adjusted life-years, was estimated from the perspective of health care payers. One-way deterministic sensitivity analysis and probabilistic sensitivity analysis with Monte-Carlo simulations of 10 000 samples were conducted. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of trastuzumab monotherapy over adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab was $\sim$1.8 million Japanese yen /quality-adjusted life-year. The one-way deterministic sensitivity analysis showed that transition probability from disease-free to metastasis status and cost of metastasis status had the greatest influence on the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. More than half the estimates in the probabilistic sensitivity analysis were located below a threshold of willingness-to-pay of 5 million Japanese yen /quality-adjusted life-year. In this first comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab versus trastuzumab monotherapy in the elderly, the latter was found favorable for elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
In elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer, adjuvant chemotherapy was associated with decreased quality of life, with relatively small benefits for prognosis. We examined the cost-effectiveness of trastuzumab monotherapy versus adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab in elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer.
METHODS
METHODS
A Markov model was developed to evaluate the costs and benefits of trastuzumab monotherapy over adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab for elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer. We built the model with a yearly cycle over a 20-year time horizon and five health states: disease-free, relapse, post-relapse, metastasis and death. The parameters in the model were based on a previous randomized controlled trial and a nationwide administrative database in Japan. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, expressed as Japanese yen per the quality-adjusted life-years, was estimated from the perspective of health care payers. One-way deterministic sensitivity analysis and probabilistic sensitivity analysis with Monte-Carlo simulations of 10 000 samples were conducted.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of trastuzumab monotherapy over adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab was $\sim$1.8 million Japanese yen /quality-adjusted life-year. The one-way deterministic sensitivity analysis showed that transition probability from disease-free to metastasis status and cost of metastasis status had the greatest influence on the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. More than half the estimates in the probabilistic sensitivity analysis were located below a threshold of willingness-to-pay of 5 million Japanese yen /quality-adjusted life-year.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
In this first comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab versus trastuzumab monotherapy in the elderly, the latter was found favorable for elderly patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive breast cancer.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35775313
pii: 6623731
doi: 10.1093/jjco/hyac107
doi:
Substances chimiques
EGF Family of Proteins
0
Receptor, ErbB-2
EC 2.7.10.1
Trastuzumab
P188ANX8CK
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1115-1123Subventions
Organisme : Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
ID : 21AA2007
Organisme : Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
ID : 20H03907
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