Cost effectiveness and health-related quality of life of chemoradiotherapy versus radiation therapy alone in elderly head and neck cancer patients.

Tanja SpraveVivek VermaAlexander FabianAlexander RühleDimos BaltasAnca-Ligia GrosuNils Henrik Nicolay

Published in: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] (2022)

This is the first analysis from the German health care system demonstrating that the addition of chemotherapy to RT for selected elderly HNC patients is cost effective and not associated with a significant HRQoL decline.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
radiation therapy
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
squamous cell carcinoma
rectal cancer
patient reported outcomes