Table 4 Impact on the mean management cost of a lung cancer patient of a ±30% variation in first-line (L1) chemotherapy costs and second- or third-line (L2) chemotherapy costs and a 30% fall in palliative care (PC) costs

From: Economics of the clinical management of lung cancer in France: an analysis using a Markov model

 

Mean cost (US$)

L1 chemotherapy costs (%)

L2 chemotherapy costs (%)

PC costs (%)

Variation

 

±30

±30

−30

Local Op NSCLC

25 050

±3.5

±1.1

−4

Local Nop NSCLC

24 443

±2.9

±2.7

−13.6

LA-Ad NSCLC

27 794

±6.5

±3.1

−2.9

LA-Nad NSCLC

24 579

±8.4

±4.9

−6.1

Diffuse NSCLC

20 691

±10.6

±2.7

−6.9

Local SCLC

31 833

±8.5

±2.7

−4.2

Diffuse SCLC

20 184

±11.7

±2.3

−4.2