Cost Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography in Patients With Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Unconfirmed Complete Remission or Partial Remission After First-Line Therapy - Concepedia

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Cost Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography in Patients With Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Unconfirmed Complete Remission or Partial Remission After First-Line Therapy

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2010

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Juliano J. Cerci, Evelinda Trindade, Luís Fernando Pracchia, Felipe Arriva Pitella, Camila C.G. Linardi, José Soares, Dominique Delbeke, Leigh-Ann Topfer, Valéria Buccheri, José Cláudio Meneghetti

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Abstract

FDG-PET demonstrated 95.9% accuracy in restaging for patients with HL with CRu/PR after first-line therapy. Given the observed probabilities, FDG-PET is highly cost effective and would reduce costs for the public health care program in Brazil.

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