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Table 4 One-way sensitivity analyses for sarcoma patients in France, all anthracycline doses

From: Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of dexrazoxane for the prevention of anthracycline-related cardiotoxicity in children with sarcoma and haematologic malignancies: a European perspective

Description of analysis

No dexrazoxane

With dexrazoxane

Incremental costs €

Incremental QALYs

ICER €

Total costs €

Total QALYs

Total costs €

Total QALYs

Base case

12,102

19.78

12,549

20.35

447

0.57

791

Risk of CHF is based on French general population prevalence data multiplied with relative risks for childhood cancer survivors [15]

18,047

15.22

15,437

17.61

− 2609

2.39

Dominant

Risk of CHF is extrapolated with a linear function

11,854

20.06

12,477

20.48

624

0.42

1493

Risk of death modelled with general population life tables multiplied by SMR for childhood cancer survivors [20]

13,103

19.70

13,668

20.17

565

0.47

1214

Treatment effect modelled with Bayesian RR

12,099

19.78

12,575

20.31

476

0.53

895

Utility data based on NYHA class [22] and not differentiated by age

12,099

20.37

12,548

20.61

449

0.23

1922

  1. CHF congestive heart failure, ICER incremental cost effectiveness ratio, NYHA New York Heart Association, QALY quality-adjusted life years, RR relative risk, SMR standardised mortality ratio