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Trial reportCancer science2018

Cost-effectiveness of aprepitant in Japanese patients treated with cisplatin-containing highly emetogenic chemotherapy.

Ikuto Tsukiyama, Shiori Hasegawa, Yoshiaki Ikeda, Masayuki Takeuchi, Sumiyo Tsukiyama, Yusuke Kurose, Masayuki Ejiri, Masaki Sakuma, Hiroko Saito, Ichiro Arakawa and 3 more

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Cancer science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Cost-effectiveness analysis of fosnetupitant in patients receiving cisplatin in Japan: analysis based on real-world data.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  6. Preparation andDrug delivery · 2023
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  7. Cost-effectiveness analysis of pegfilgrastim in patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving ramucirumab plus docetaxel in Japan.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022
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  11. Cost-utility analysis of aprepitant for patients who truly need it in Japan.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ikuto TsukiyamaFaculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9861-9730
Shiori HasegawaSchool of Pharmacy, Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan.
Yoshiaki IkedaSchool of Pharmacy, Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan.
Masayuki TakeuchiDepartment of Pharmacy, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Sumiyo TsukiyamaDepartment of Pharmacy, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Yusuke KuroseDepartment of Pharmacy, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Masayuki EjiriDepartment of Pharmacy, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Masaki SakumaDepartment of Pharmacy, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Hiroko SaitoDepartment of Pharmacy, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Ichiro ArakawaFaculty of Pharmacy, Teikyo Heisei University, Chiba, Japan.
Tadao InoueFaculty of Pharmacy, Ohu University, Koriyama, Japan.
Etsuro YamaguchiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Akihito KuboDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan.
Aichi Medical University · JPKinjo Gakuin University · JPOhu University · JPTeikyo Heisei University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) remains a major adverse event in cancer chemotherapy. Although aprepitant is effective in preventing CINV, an increment in financial burden for uniform use of aprepitant is a concern. The aim of the present study was to define the cost-effectiveness of aprepitant from the perspective of the Japanese National Health Insurance system. Based on the results of a randomized phase II trial comparing an aprepitant-containing regimen versus a nonaprepitant regimen in Japanese patients who received cisplatin-containing highly emetogenic chemotherapy, a decision analytic model was developed. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was calculated both in the outpatient care setting (OCS) and in the inpatient care setting (ICS). The use of the aprepitant-containing regimen was associated with improved quality of life compared with the nonaprepitant regimen, with an increment in quality-adjusted life years (QALY) of 0.0016. The incremental total medical costs associated with the use of the aprepitant regimen were lower in the OCS than in the ICS, 6192 JPY (56.92 USD) and 9820 JPY (90.27 USD), respectively. The ICER was calculated as 3 906 698 JPY (35 910 USD) per QALY gained in the OCS and 6 195 781 JPY (56 952 USD) per QALY gained in the ICS. Cost-effectiveness of the aprepitant-containing antiemetic therapy was limited to the OCS, considering the threshold of willingness-to-pay commonly accepted (5 million JPY [45 960 USD] in Japan and 50 000 USD in the USA). The efficacy of aprepitant offsets the costs for revisiting clinics or rehospitalization added with rescue medications in the OCS.

Indexed as

AntiemeticsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsAprepitantCisplatinCost-Benefit AnalysisHealth Care CostsHumansMorpholinesAntiemeticsAprepitantCisplatinMorpholineschemotherapy-induced nausea and vomitingcost-effectivenesshighly emetogenic chemotherapyquality-adjusted life year incremental cost-effectiveness ratio

Identifiers

PMID29999572
PMCPMC6125450
OpenAlexW2882839104

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