A Comparison of the Costs of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy and of Axillary lymph Node Dissection in the Management of Early-stage Breast Cancer in Ontario

Objective: To complete a cost-minimization analysis (CMA) of the cost of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in the management of early-stage breast cancer (ESBC) in a hypothetical Ontario hospital setting. Methods: Decision-analysis modeling, with a decisio...

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Main Author: Wells, Bryan John
Other Authors: Coyte, Peter C.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18993