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© 2020, The Author(s). Background: There is limited evidence relating to the cost-effectiveness of treatments for localised prostate cancer. Methods: The cost-effectiveness of active monitoring, surgery, and radiotherapy was evaluated within the Prostate Testing for Cancer and Treatment (ProtecT) randomised controlled trial from a UK NHS perspective at 10 years’ median follow-up. Prostate cancer resource-use collected from hospital records and trial participants was valued using UK reference-costs. QALYs (quality-adjusted-life-years) were calculated from patient-reported EQ-5D-3L measurements. Adjusted mean costs, QALYs, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were calculated; cost-effectiveness acceptability curves and sensitivity analyses addressed uncertainty; subgroup analyses considered age and disease-risk. Results: Adjusted mean QALYs were similar between groups: 6.89 (active monitoring), 7.09 (radiotherapy), and 6.91 (surgery). Active monitoring had lower adjusted mean costs (£5913) than radiotherapy (£7361) and surgery (£7519). Radiotherapy was the most likely (58% probability) cost-effective option at the UK NICE willingness-to-pay threshold (£20,000 per QALY). Subgroup analyses confirmed radiotherapy was cost-effective for older men and intermediate/high-risk disease groups; active monitoring was more likely to be the cost-effective option for younger men and low-risk groups. Conclusions: Longer follow-up and modelling are required to determine the most cost-effective treatment for localised prostate cancer over a man’s lifetime. Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN20141297: http://isrctn.org (14/10/2002); ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02044172: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (23/01/2014).
Author(s): Noble SM, Garfield K, Lane JA, Metcalfe C, Davis M, Walsh EI, Martin RM, Turner EL, Peters TJ, Thorn JC, Mason M, Bollina P, Catto JWF, Doherty A, Gnanapragasam V, Hughes O, Kockelbergh R, Kynaston H, Paul A, Paez E, Rosario DJ, Rowe E, Oxley J, Staffurth J, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Donovan JL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Journal of Cancer
Year: 2020
Volume: 123
Pages: 1063-1070
Print publication date: 29/09/2020
Online publication date: 16/07/2020
Acceptance date: 25/06/2020
Date deposited: 04/06/2021
ISSN (print): 0007-0920
ISSN (electronic): 1532-1827
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-0978-4
DOI: 10.1038/s41416-020-0978-4
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