2024
Cost-Effectiveness of Eltrombopag Plus Immunosuppressive Therapy Versus Immunosuppressive Therapy Alone in Adults with Severe Aplastic Anemia in the United States
Potnis K, Ito S, Patel K, Shallis R, Podoltsev N, Kewan T, Stempel J, Mendez L, Huntington S, Stahl M, Zeidan A, Bewersdorf J, Goshua G. Cost-Effectiveness of Eltrombopag Plus Immunosuppressive Therapy Versus Immunosuppressive Therapy Alone in Adults with Severe Aplastic Anemia in the United States. Blood 2024, 144: 3644. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2024-204312.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSevere aplastic anemiaTreatment of severe aplastic anemiaQuality-adjusted life yearsAplastic anemiaIncremental net monetary benefitDeterministic sensitivity analysisProbabilistic sensitivity analysesImmunosuppressive therapyNewly diagnosed severe aplastic anemiaCost-effectiveness of eltrombopagOral thrombopoietin receptor agonistPatients treated with eltrombopagUntreated severe aplastic anemiaHematopoietic stem cell transplantationCost-effective therapeutic strategyDevelopment of adverse eventsLonger-term follow-up dataRACE trialsLater-line therapyThrombopoietin receptor agonistsPhase I/II trialSecond-line therapyStem cell transplantationU.S. payer perspectiveFirst-line treatment
2018
Costs of relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma among Medicare patients
Huntington S, Keshishian A, McGuire M, Xie L, Baser O. Costs of relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma among Medicare patients. Leukemia & Lymphoma 2018, 59: 2880-2887. PMID: 29936866, DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2018.1459613.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedAged, 80 and overAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCost of IllnessFemaleHealth Care CostsHospitalizationHumansInsurance Claim ReviewLymphoma, Large B-Cell, DiffuseMaleMedicareNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeUnited StatesConceptsDiffuse large B-cell lymphomaHealth care costsLarge B-cell lymphomaFirst-line treatmentB-cell lymphomaCare costsHealth care expendituresCare expendituresHigher health care costsOffice visit costsSecond-line therapyFirst-line therapyHigher medical costsLikelihood of relapseRelapsed cohortMedicare patientsMedicare claimsMedical costsVisit costsPropensity scoreOlder adultsPatientsLymphomaTherapyTreatment
2016
Characterization of Real World Survival Outcomes Among Older Adults with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Receiving Second Line Treatment in the Pre Novel-Agents Era: An Analysis of the 2007-2013 SEER-Medicare Database
Mato A, Jahnke J, Li P, Mehra M, Ladage V, Mahler M, Fanning M, Doshi J, Huntington S. Characterization of Real World Survival Outcomes Among Older Adults with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Receiving Second Line Treatment in the Pre Novel-Agents Era: An Analysis of the 2007-2013 SEER-Medicare Database. Blood 2016, 128: 4790. DOI: 10.1182/blood.v128.22.4790.4790.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSecond-line treatmentChronic lymphocytic leukemiaSecond-line cohortSecond-line therapyOverall survivalLine treatmentInitial therapyClinical trialsLine therapyInitial treatmentCLL treatmentSurvival outcomesCLL patientsOlder adultsNovel agentsCLL outcomeLymphocytic leukemiaMedicare feeCommon second-line treatmentReal-world survival outcomesRecent landmark clinical trialsRelapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemiaMultivariate Cox regression modelingSecond lineAdvisory Committee