Estimating the costs of intensity-modulated and 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy in Ontario.

CONCLUSIONS: Our costing model can be modified to estimate the costs of 3D-crt and imrt for various disease sites and settings. The results demonstrate the important role of capital costs in studies of radiotherapy cost from a health system perspective, which our model can accommodate. In addition, our study established the need for future analyses of imrt cost to consider how vmat affects time consumption. PMID: 27330359 [PubMed]
Source: Current Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Curr Oncol Source Type: research