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ReviewClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2008

Can the Spanish care system assume the new costs of medications against cancer?

Carlos Camps, Cristina Caballero, Rafael Sirera, Ana Blasco, Diego Cayuela, Mireia Gil, Xavier Badía

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Review in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Social value of a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) in Spain: the point of view of oncologists.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2014
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carlos CampsServicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. camps_car@gva.es
Cristina Caballero
Rafael Sirera
Ana Blasco
Diego Cayuela
Mireia Gil
Xavier Badía
Hospital General Universitario De Valencia · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a high incidence disease, forcing healthcare systems to assign a significant amount of resources to its treatment. New developments have arisen recently: development of new agents that act at specific steps of cellular differentiation and proliferation and identification of predictive genetic markers which allow sub-groups of patients that will benefit from these agents, alone or in combination with chemotherapy, to be targeted. The majority of new drugs coming to the market combine greater clinical benefit and higher costs. Constraints on healthcare budgets worldwide make it necessary to rationalise the expense by prioritising allocation of available resources to the most efficient interventions, so that the best possible clinical result can be obtained at a reasonable cost and with the best quality of life for the patient. Economic evaluation studies represent the only tool available to scientifically determine the cost-effectiveness of new treatments and the budgetary impact of their introduction to the therapeutic arsenal available for the treatment of cancer.

Indexed as

Health Care CostsAntineoplastic AgentsHumansNeoplasmsSpainAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID18258508
OpenAlexW2066846963

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