USE OF PSA SLOPE TO GUIDE ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY IN POST-PROSTATECTOMY PROSTATE CANCER HAS POTENTIAL TO BE COST EFFECTIVE

Author(s)

Reed SD1, Biehn Stewart S2, Scales CD2, Moul JW2
1Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA, 2Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

OBJECTIVES: NADiA ProsVue is a prognostic system developed to identify men at lower risk for clinical recurrence of prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy, as indicated by a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) slope <=2 pg/mL/month.  We evaluated the potential cost-effectiveness of using the prognostic system to guide adjuvant radiotherapy (ART) in men considered to be at intermediate- or high-risk for recurrence based on the CAPRA-S nomogram.  METHODS: We developed a decision analytic model consisting of a decision tree to stratify men into risk groups and a state transition model to generate long-term costs and outcomes. We derived model parameters using patient-level data from the product’s 510(k) registration study, the medical literature and other sources.  We conducted probabilistic, one-way and two-way sensitivity analyses to examine the cost-effectiveness of the system (i.e. with PSA slope findings) versus standard care (i.e. without PSA slope findings). RESULTS: The cost-effectiveness of a PSA slope-guided strategy varied widely due to small differences in QALYs at 10 years.  Assuming that 20% of men in the intermediate-risk CAPRA-S group receive ART with standard care, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) is less than $50,000 per QALY when use of ART is less than 8.2% among men with PSA slopes <=2 pg/mL/month.  Assuming that 40% in the high-risk CAPRA-S group receive ART with standard care, ART would have to decrease to at least 11.5% among men with PSA slopes <=2 pg/mL/month to achieve an ICER less $50,000 per QALY.  ICERS were also sensitive to varying the costs of the prognostic system and ART, varying the benefits of salvage therapy and utility weights for ART toxicities. CONCLUSIONS: The ProsVue system has the potential to be cost effective, but its value will be dependent on the magnitude of reduction in ART among men identified as having a low risk of recurrence.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2014-05, ISPOR 2014, Palais des Congres de Montreal

Value in Health, Vol. 17, No. 3 (May 2014)

Code

PCN104

Topic

Economic Evaluation

Topic Subcategory

Cost-comparison, Effectiveness, Utility, Benefit Analysis

Disease

Oncology

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