Economic evaluation of first-line treatments for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a cost-effectiveness analysis in a health resource-limited setting.

BACKGROUND: To estimate, from the perspective of the Chinese healthcare system, the economic outcomes of five different first-line strategies among patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). METHODS AND FINDINGS: A decision-analytic model was developed to simulate the lifetime disease cou...

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Main Authors: Bin Wu, Baijun Dong, Yuejuan Xu, Qiang Zhang, Jinfang Shen, Huafeng Chen, Wei Xue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3297611?pdf=render