TY - JOUR
T1 - Treatment selection for esophageal cancer
T2 - evaluation from a nationwide database
AU - Hamamoto, Yasuo
AU - Sakakibara, Naoki
AU - Nagashima, Fumio
AU - Kitagawa, Yuko
AU - Higashi, Takahiro
N1 - Funding Information:
Naoki Sakakibara, Fumio Nagashima, and Takahiro Higashi have no conflicts of interest. Yasuo Hamamoto has conflicts of interest to declare with regard to this manuscript: Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Yuko Kitagawa has conflicts of interest to declare with regard to this manuscript: Ethicon, Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Taiho Pharma, Chugai Pharmaceutical co., Asahi Kasei Pharma, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Daiichi Sankyo co., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Novartis Pharma., Pfeizer Japan, Merck Serono Co., Yakult Honsha co., Terumo Corporation, Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Astra Zeneca.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Japan Esophageal Society and Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Background: Most elderly patients poorly tolerate the standard treatment for esophageal cancer; however, little information is available regarding the appropriateness of non-standard esophageal cancer treatments for those patients. This study aims to analyze the treatment costs and completion rates of patients undergoing a real-world treatment for esophageal cancer to elucidate the treatment selection and its quality. Materials and methods: We analyzed treatment costs and completion rates for patients with esophageal cancer and analyzed these data relative to patient age and center volumes. Patients with esophageal cancer [UICC, TMN, Clinical stage II/III (excluding T4)] who were diagnosed in 2013 were analyzed. Patients were classified into five groups defined as follows: surgical therapy, chemotherapy, concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), modified concurrent chemoradiotherapy (mCRT), and radiotherapy (RT). Results: Mean and median age of patients who received surgery and CCRT were comparable; however, patients who underwent mCRT and RT tended to be older. Medical costs associated with surgery were higher than costs associated with other non-surgical treatments. Cost and completion rate of chemoradiotherapy did not differ between CCRT and mCRT; however, both had higher completion rates compared to that of RT. Surgical expenses tended to be the highest in low-volume centers and the lowest in high-volume centers. Conclusion: Treatment of esophageal cancer at high-volume centers seems well balanced compared with medium- to low-volume centers. mCRT was widely performed and comparable in medical cost to CCRT, although additional clinical impacts were unclear.
AB - Background: Most elderly patients poorly tolerate the standard treatment for esophageal cancer; however, little information is available regarding the appropriateness of non-standard esophageal cancer treatments for those patients. This study aims to analyze the treatment costs and completion rates of patients undergoing a real-world treatment for esophageal cancer to elucidate the treatment selection and its quality. Materials and methods: We analyzed treatment costs and completion rates for patients with esophageal cancer and analyzed these data relative to patient age and center volumes. Patients with esophageal cancer [UICC, TMN, Clinical stage II/III (excluding T4)] who were diagnosed in 2013 were analyzed. Patients were classified into five groups defined as follows: surgical therapy, chemotherapy, concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT), modified concurrent chemoradiotherapy (mCRT), and radiotherapy (RT). Results: Mean and median age of patients who received surgery and CCRT were comparable; however, patients who underwent mCRT and RT tended to be older. Medical costs associated with surgery were higher than costs associated with other non-surgical treatments. Cost and completion rate of chemoradiotherapy did not differ between CCRT and mCRT; however, both had higher completion rates compared to that of RT. Surgical expenses tended to be the highest in low-volume centers and the lowest in high-volume centers. Conclusion: Treatment of esophageal cancer at high-volume centers seems well balanced compared with medium- to low-volume centers. mCRT was widely performed and comparable in medical cost to CCRT, although additional clinical impacts were unclear.
KW - Chemoradiotherapy
KW - Costs of care
KW - Elderly
KW - Esophageal cancer
KW - Hospital-based cancer registries
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U2 - 10.1007/s10388-018-0605-0
DO - 10.1007/s10388-018-0605-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 29892936
AN - SCOPUS:85042226084
SN - 1612-9059
VL - 15
SP - 109
EP - 114
JO - Esophagus
JF - Esophagus
IS - 2
ER -