Healthcare decision making is complex. Decision-making processes and the factors
(criteria) that decision makers should consider vary for different types of decisions, including …

Background Lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been
shown to deliver appreciable reductions in mortality in high-risk patients. However, in an era …

Purpose To conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine whether stereotactic body
radiation therapy (SBRT) is a cost-effective therapy compared with radiofrequency ablation …

Most major health institutions recommend women to undergo repeat mammography
screening for early diagnosis of breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths among …

Objective. To examine the impact of structural uncertainty of Markov models in modeling cost-
effectiveness for the treatment of advanced breast cancer (ABC). Methods. Four common …

Purpose Despite the rising costs in radiation oncology, the impact of health economics
research on radiation therapy practice analysis patterns is unclear. We performed a …

Abstract Evaluation of cost-utility is critical in assessing the medical utility of predictive or
prognostic biomarkers. Current methods involve complex state-transition models, requiring …

Background: Obtaining accurate histopathologic detail for breast lumpectomy specimens is
challenging because of sampling and loss of three-dimensional conformational features with …

Ziel der Studie: Brustkrebs ist die häufigste Krebserkrankung von Frauen. Die meisten
Leitlinien empfehlen Patientinnen mit Lymphknoten-positivem (LN+) Brustkrebs im …

In this dissertation, we study three aspects of the breast cancer screening problem: impact of
breast density and supplemental screenings, screening in resource-restricted settings and …