A systematic review of the cost and cost‐effectiveness studies of proton radiotherapy

V Verma, MV Mishra, MP Mehta - Cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Economic analyses of new technologies, such as proton‐beam
radiotherapy (PBT), are a public health priority. To date, no systematic review of the cost …

Emergence of stereotactic body radiation therapy and its impact on current and future clinical practice

RD Timmerman, J Herman, LC Cho - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2014 - ascopubs.org
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is generally a tumor-ablative radiation modality
using essential technologies capable of accurately and precisely damaging the target with a …

Financial toxicity associated with treatment of localized prostate cancer

BS Imber, M Varghese, B Ehdaie… - Nature Reviews Urology, 2020 - nature.com
Financial toxicity is a broad term to describe the economic consequences and subjective
burden resulting from a cancer diagnosis and treatment. As financial toxicity is associated …

Practical considerations for prostate hypofractionation in the developing world

M Yan, AG Gouveia, FL Cury, N Moideen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
External beam radiotherapy is an effective curative treatment option for localized prostate
cancer, the most common cancer in men worldwide. However, conventionally fractionated …

[HTML][HTML] Benefits of adopting hypofractionated radiotherapy as a standard of care in low-and middle-income countries

RD Kraus, CR Weil, M Abdel-Wahab - JCO global oncology, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS An exhaustive review of available literature was performed using the PubMed
database. Publications pertaining to hypofractionated radiotherapy and cost-effectiveness …

Use, complications, and costs of stereotactic body radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer

JA Halpern, A Sedrakyan, WC Hsu, J Mao… - Cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for localized prostate cancer has
potential advantages over traditional radiotherapies. Herein, the authors compared national …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of breast and prostate cancer by hypofractionated radiotherapy: potential risks and benefits

KJ Ray, NR Sibson, AE Kiltie - Clinical oncology, 2015 - Elsevier
Breast cancer and prostate cancer are the most common cancers diagnosed in women and
men, respectively, in the UK, and radiotherapy is used extensively in the treatment of both. In …

Cost-comparativeness of proton versus photon therapy

V Verma, C Shah, JCM Rwigema… - Chinese clinical …, 2016 - cco.amegroups.org
Proton beam radiotherapy (PBT) offers great promise in the treatment of a wide variety of
cancers owing to the sharp drop-off in radiation dose at a defined point, known as the Bragg …

Systematic review of hypofractionated radiation therapy for prostate cancer

NG Zaorsky, N Ohri, TN Showalter, AP Dicker… - Cancer treatment …, 2013 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is the second most prevalent solid tumor diagnosed in men in the United
States and Western Europe. Conventionally fractionated external beam radiation therapy …

Systematic review of the cost effectiveness of radiation therapy for prostate cancer from 2003 to 2013

NP Amin, DJ Sher, AA Konski - Applied health economics and health …, 2014 - Springer
Background Prostate cancer remains a prevalent diagnosis with a spectrum of treatment
choices that offer similar oncologic outcomes but differing side effect profiles and associated …